Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the Murray-Fairless fight appeared to be less a matter of principle than one of various prides & prejudices. Fairless objected to Government fact-finding boards; moreover, he was outraged by Murray's settle-or-I-shoot tactics. Murray had sounded his war cry so furiously that now he could not retreat an inch. Nor did Murray want to face the slightest possibility of another labor leader (i.e., John Lewis or Walter Reuther) getting a better settlement than he could...
Management, for its part, would be saddled with another large fixed charge. As the Ford contract was written, management would have a continuing reason for wanting more, not less, Government-financed, old age insurance...
...ground equipment -tanks, artillery, trucks, communications materiel, small arms. France would also get some tactical aircraft. But the major share of planes would go to Britain, including every type from trainers to 6-173 and 6-298. Benelux countries would get the same sort of equipment as France, but less of it. Norway, closest to Russia, would get radar equipment and some army supplies. Denmark would be given antiaircraft guns and radar for the defense of her air bases. Italy, her armament limited by treaty, would get little more than rifles. Most MAP countries needed (and would get) minelayers, minesweepers...
...less than fruitful week for the U.N. At one point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...
...devaluation of the British pound also hit the Italian lira. The Italian cabinet had decided not to devalue the lira, which had already been drastically devalued two years ago, but to let it find its own level on a more or less free market. Forthwith the lira fell from 630 to more than 700 to the dollar. The Communists thereupon challenged Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government to parliamentary debate...