Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference, Rockefeller sympathized with Harvard's rejection of NDEA funds, but laid equal stress upon "the realities of the Congressional situation." These statements were widely interpreted as favoring retention of the affidavit, until his recent clarification...
...dusk fell across Ankara, as smoke from thousands of homes laid a foglike pall over the city, Ike's mission moved toward a high point. He rode out of town again to lay a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum. There he shed his topcoat in the chill evening air, laid a wreath of white and red carnations, stood with head bowed. So many flashbulbs flashed in his face that he seemed a bit blinded. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" he said to a Turkish official as they walked away...
Minutes before taking off on his 22,370-mile global mission, President Eisenhower laid down before a TV audience of 38 million Americans a statement of national -and personal-purpose in the world to rank with his Guildhall speech in London in June 1945, Excerpts...
...shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions are concerned: "Our members will refuse to honor lines set up for organizational or recognition purposes. But in primary strikes, other unions will have to indemnify us against loss if they want our support...
General Motors Corp., hardest hit, with 215,000 workers laid off and all production at a halt, was moving faster last week than even its own executives expected. G.M. expects to have all divisions operating at full speed by Dec. 18. Chevrolet plans to have 63,000 workers back, producing 40,000 cars a week, by about Dec. 16. The 13 Chevy assembly plants are shooting to break the alltime record of 188,410 cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will...