Word: io
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept his fingers crossed, and the big day finally came. Four months ago Welterweight Foster got his chance in Madison Square Garden. The hard-boiled Garden crowd went wild as Vince savagely carved up clever old Tony Pellone and knocked him out in the seventh round. Sportwriters compared him io Petrolic, even to Jack Dempsey, hailed him as a new, slashing pug who might pull boxing out of the doldrums...
...Ridge contains three plants: X-io, Y12, K-25. At X-io, building-trade workers (carpenters, plumbers, etc.) are members of A.F.L.'s new Atomic Trades and Labor Council. Y-12 is unorganized. K-25 is organized by C.I.O.'s United Chemical Workers...
Unknown Hazards. Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., already operating Y-12 and K-25 for the Government on a cost-plus basis, recently took over X-io on the same terms. When it did, it tried to reduce the X-10 higher wage rates to the same level as the other plants. Some 800 X-10 employees objected. Employment at X-10 was supposed to involve hazards of "a largely unknown nature...
...both towns had Communist mayors, but they got different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
...came the electrifying news that the Communists in Rome had voted for the Lateran Pact. In Anticoli, Eugeni crowed cruelly, guffawed to speechless Don Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio...