Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this sweetly reasonable gesture, the company thought the union was "certainly to be commended." But it went on to suggest that settlement of general wage increases be postponed until production volume, costs and profits were known, until company and union had probed their "joint ability to increase the productivity of employes . . . and our ability to get into full production." The company hoped that Leonard would approach the production problem with the same "constructive thought" he had given to work stoppages...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, composed of the Chief of Staff to the President, the Army Chief of Staff, the Air Chief of Staff (if Congress insists), the Chief of Naval Operations and a Navy Air admiral...
Persistent rumors said that Moscow had exacted a price (i.e., joint Sino-Soviet control of Manchurian mines and other enterprises). In any case, the National Government may have felt a price worthwhile. It had already agreed to give Russia railway, naval and trade rights in Manchuria-though the Moscow press last week sneered at "impetuous American imperialists" (presumably ex-Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley...
...Washington, Secretary Byrnes affirmed the Braden doctrine that the hemispheric principle of non-intervention should not shield violators of the elementary rights of man. He also accepted Uruguayan Foreign Minister Alberto Rodriguez Larreta's ringing proposal that the American republics take joint action against oppressive regimes in their midst (TIME...
...coffeemen yelped even louder. Jacob Rosenthal, head of the Joint Coffee Pro motion Committee and onetime coffee consultant to OPA, called the subsidy "utterly fantastic." In order to buy any coffee at all, he said, U.S. buyers have been paying as much as 3^ a pound over ceiling price by upgrading and short weigh ing - while OPA did practically nothing...