Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate last week considered the biggest rivers and harbors bill of all time. In the bill were many sound, far-reaching (and long-deferred) projects for flood control, harbor improvement and power development. In it also were many Senators' pets: long-deferred local-improvement schemes...
...Sentner organized a local at St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. The following year he led the plant's 2,000 workers in a 53-day sit-down strike, the second longest sit-down in U.S. labor history. But when handsome Stuart Symington (now Secretary of the Air Force) took over as Emerson's president, labor relations began to settle down. Symington and Sentner sized each other up; each found the other a forthright, levelheaded man of his word. Working together, they put into effect a successful labor-management plan and a profit-sharing program. Emerson, swollen...
...With all this game-time behind us, we should have no trouble developing a first class team if we can arrange for a practice cage of some sort and get the use of some nearby ponies--possibly from one of the local riding clubs...
Students also live together and help with cooking, cleaning, and other housework. Afternoons are free for hiking, swimming, committee meetings, baseball games, and local fiestas...
...responding to Kelley's faith in the town's mining future. Workers were flocking back. A citizens' group which had started a housing project was expanding it; others were plugging a new $2,000,000 hospital and recreation center. The first $100 housing contribution came from Local No. 1, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Said Union President Oscar Hill, whose local had fought many a bitter fight against Anaconda: "The future of Butte and the security of its working people is established...