Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.L.W.U. got the sugar workers a contract providing minim urns of 41?to 43½?an hour (up from 26½?), plus perquisites such as company housing and medical care. This year the I.L.W.U., strong and cÕnifident, asked for much more sweetening: 1) a 65? minimum; 2) joint company-union administration of perquisites; 3) a 40-hour week; 4) the union shop. That was too much for the planters; for weeks negotiations have been stalemated...
Arctic Defense. Most of the talking and planning has been done, since last January, by the six-year-old U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, which meets irregularly (alternating between Montreal and New York) and makes proposals to Washington and Ottawa. Some of its proposals have been routine and noncontroversial. Others are knotty and controversial. Knottiest: the defense of the Canadian Arctic. What is under discussion is whether the U.S. and Canada shall i) man Arctic bases (some wartime ones, some to be built) with troops of both nations and 2) standardize weapons, all the way from aircraft to rifles...
...months before, an eager young jazz enthusiast named Michael Levin, editor of Down Beat, had dropped in at Sandy's, a bar-&-grill joint in Paterson, N.J. He found the barflies listening to the Mooney group in reverent silence, saw Proprietor Sandy shoo out paying customers who dared talk above the music. Levin listened for six hours, went completely overboard, and started a one-man Mooney campaign. He coaxed musicians, bandleaders and managers into making the trip to Paterson to hear "the most exciting musical unit in the U.S. today," devoted nine columns to Mooney in Down Beat, started...
...oldest diseases on earth (even dinosaurs had it, as their fossil remains show). Doctors recognize two chief types: 1) rheumatoid, an inflammation which usually attacks people between the ages of 20 and 40; and 2) osteoarthritis, a degenerative ailment of old age. Symptoms: painful swellings of the joints, often starting in the fingers or knees, and migrating from joint to joint...
...Vienna, the world changed about them. When the talking began, Russia and Austria were the major European land-powers. But when Napoleon escaped from Elba, the Russian armies had dribbled home; Austria was occupied in Italy. Only England and Prussia were set to smash Napoleon at Waterloo, and their joint victory made Prussia a major nation, England the most powerful country in Europe...