Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointments. One of these men is a Dean, occupied with administrative duties that leave little time for academic work. Two more are nearing retirement and thus are most justifiably shedding much of the tension and responsibility accumulated over long and distinguished careers. A fourth teaches only at the graduate level, while still another professor will be unable to return from Washington for another year. The recent announcement of Professor Friedrich's intended return to work with the government was balanced by Dean Hanford's resumption of teaching chores next fall. In all, seven members of tested stature and calibre must...
...just such methods as he now employed, and with a major assist from a sympathetic government, he had raised their wage level from an average hourly wage of 50? in 1933 to $1.47 an hour last summer. He never bothered much about other gains, such as safety devices and hospitalization, although he paid such things lip service. When the Government seized the mines last spring he wrung from it a 5?-per-ton royalty for a welfare fund. The major objective of Economic Royalist Lewis has always been higher wages. Although his new demands were not officially made public, they...
Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
...Price. In private conversations with the U.S.'s General Lucius D. Clay, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky had intimated Russia's willingness to 1) treat Germany as the economic unit envisaged in one part of the inconsistent Potsdam Pact and 2) greatly increase the permitted maximum level of German industry, now keyed to a potential annual steel production of 5,800,000 tons. (Wartime peak in 1943: 21,000,000 tons; depression low in 1932: 5,500,000 tons.) For this reversal of their position (previously the Russians had stubbornly pressed for lower industrial output) and for their agreement...
...work last week descended from the committee level to the subcommittees. It was not lost from the sight of a vigilant and prolix press, but it was in that tentative, amorphous state where the detailed picture of it on one day would be out of focus the next...