Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What it cannot do is to decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local union committees. Meantime, pending decision of the rival claims by the courts or the National Labor Relations Board, G. M. will not talk amendment (or, in effect, renewal) of its national contract with either union. G. M. was showing its muscle...
...vitallium. Vitallium is the most satisfactory metal doctors use for patching fractures. Fortnight ago, in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, Dr. Strock told how he used inexpensive vitallium for making successful peg teeth. Into the gaping socket of a willing patient, who was first given a local anesthetic, he inserted a vitallium screw, working it into the jawbone about five-eighths of an inch just as a carpenter screws into wood. To his delight, new bone tissue soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several...
...unit-Bethlehem Steel Corp.-to buy its West Coast shipyard, helping to free Bethlehem to concentrate on expanding its East Coast shipbuilding capacity hard by its East Coast steel and armor plate shops. Meanwhile Army & Navy men are exploring possibilities of organizing a West Coast steel industry to serve local shipyards...
...services, Siegel exacts an average fee of $25. Non-profit consumer groups also engaged in insurance counsel say the average case can be handled for $3. Out of his whopping annual take, some $250,000, Siegel paid a radio bill last year of $100,000 for time on ten local and four New England stations...
...rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself as a capable, dryly humorous, lonely citizen. Then the trial takes over, for three reels of howling prairie jurisprudence, wry Lincoln homespun and Hollywood crossexamination. Only at the fade-out is there a hint that this gangly local yokel is headed anywhere. "Just going up the hill a piece," says he, parting from a companion and up he goes, into a lowering thunderstorm...