Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never really wanted a strike, was soon satisfied after Government spokesmen pushed a stack of chips to the middle of the table. The chips: for all seamen, a $17.50 flat monthly increase and overtime at $1 an hour. With normal overtime, now to begin after 48 hours instead of 56, this would give an AB (now making $145 a month) close to $200-what he earned in wartime. This was good enough for Curran's seagoing National Maritime Union...
...Assembly passed in London). He said: "All of us are consecrated to making an end of gloom and hopelessness. It will not be an easy job. The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling. All of us want to stand erect, with our faces to the sun, instead of being forced to burrow into the earth, like rats...
...Reno, where gambling is legal, nobody raised an eyebrow when the university's president accepted. Students with scruples about it can apply for one of the eight scholarships from the Reno Woman's Christian Temperance Union instead. But the W.C.T.U. scholarships pay only...
...Left. On the extreme left, Robert Motherwell and I. Rice Pereira never so much as peeked out of the window. They compared their art to music, which seldom has tangible subject matter either; talked about "reverence for the materials" (meaning paint and canvas, which could be controlled) instead of nature, which was too big and too confusing. They invented rigid, severely pointless patterns...
...Instead of opening the exchange, the board went to court itself. It got another federal judge, Elwyn Riley Shaw, to dissolve the Holly order. Said Judge Shaw: "Just because one man is short is no reason for suspending operations of the world's largest grain market...