Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutionist in production methods and a drive was on to "Fordize" Russian plants. Workers were exhorted to "Do it the Ford way, it is the best way." His name was better known than Stalin's at the time. Villages held festivals in honor of the Fordson tractor. Wrote Leon Trotsky: "The most popular word among our forward-looking peasantry is Fordson. The peasant speaks of the Fordzonishko (dear little Fordson) gently and lovingly...
...Leon Clausen, president of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery), is a rugged individualist. The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, the NLRB, the regional WLB and the Mayor of Racine had all failed to break down his stubbornness. But Clausen had his own views on how to settle the strike of 3,500 U.A.W. workers at his company's Racine (Wis.) plant. His solution, as reported by a committee of machinery-starved farmers: "When these men have been out long enough and their families get hungry enough, the strike will...
...nation's fourth* oldest strike had ended, with an estimated cost to workers of $11,744,000 in lost wages. Leon Clausen, who with federal tax refunds could show a neat $1.4 million profit for 1946 despite the strike, had given the union an unmerciful drubbing...
...appellate term of New York's Supreme Court denied a Manhattan apartment operator the right to evict one Leon Mahler simply because Miss Bernice Zvelechovski had been living with him without benefit of clergy for six years...
Ramadier's alternative to rising wages is lower prices. His predecessor, Socialist Elder Statesman Leon Blum, checked last December's inflation spurt with a dramatic decree cutting all prices 5%. Ramadier, aware that this turned out to be the most popular move in domestic French politics since liberation, this week decreed another 5% cut. This hold-the-line policy, plus Jean Monnet's plan for reconstruction of French industry and exports, constitutes France's chief and perhaps only hope of stability...