Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage boost and price rise in steel in February 1946 took the last brakes off the postwar spiral of inflation. Last week, out of a clear sky with an apparently unlimited ceiling, U.S. Steel flatly rejected another round of wage demands-the third since 1946-and proclaimed instead a price cut (see BUSINESS...
...without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...
California has ruled that all pro boxers must fight with 8-oz. gloves instead of the usual six-ouncers. Michigan has reduced the three-minute round to two minutes...
...What's happened to Hollywood? . . . What inspired the effort to go intelligentsia instead of making the type pictures that made this great business what it is, or was? . . . This Academy Award thing . . . has done a lot to twist the type of our shows from entertainments to artistic successes...
...historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...