Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union had started it. N.M.U. demanded a $17.50 a month wage boost, which the Government approved. Then rival A.F.L. seamen demanded $22.50-$27.50 boosts. The Wage Stabilization Board, believing that its duty was to hold the wage line, tried to limit A.F.L. to the C.I.O increase. Warned brilliant, 34-year-old Willard Wirtz, onetime law teacher, ardent puzzle fan and chief of WSB: this is a "stepladder" approach to further demands which would mean the end of Harry Truman's badly bent stabilization program...
Georgi Dimitroff, Communist Party boss, was taking no chances. The Peace Treaty would limit the Bulgarian Army; the remnant must be men the Communists could count on. "Unreliable" civil officials were being swept out of office with what Dimitroff briskly called "the iron broom." In preparation was a National Education Bill containing a codicil about the political, beliefs of professors and students. Next would come a constitutional assembly from which Agrarian leaders feared they would be excluded...
Britain's paper-hungry publishers had few magazines of their own to sell. Raising a hue & cry about "cultural invasion" by U.S. magazines, they had persuaded the Government to limit U.S. imports. Now they had invasion jitters over a new menace: they had kept out the good only to be inundated...
Treasury agents, who had anxiously awaited their first opportunity to pounce on some venal vacationist, pounced on Lady Stanley for secretly spending hundreds of pounds beyond the legal limit. In London's Bow Street police court, Lady Stanley (who likes her friends to call her "Portia") pleaded guilty. Beside her, booked on the same charge, stood fiftyish Anton Bon, who likes his friends to call him "Major." Manager of London's swank Dorchester Hotel Ltd., he has made his establishment the Royal Family's favorite spot for social appearances. "Major" Bon also pleaded guilty. For Portia...
While the Prime Minister's ship ploughed toward Halifax, more halfhearted union-Government talks were held. But nothing came of them. The steel union still demanded 15?-an-hour wage increases, the Government insisted that 10? was the limit. (Out in British Columbia the Government regional labor board was granting 13?, 15? and even 18? increases right & left...