Word: majored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of principle": Should the steel companies foot the whole bill for employees' pensions and insurance (as proposed by President Truman's fact-finding board), or should the Steelworkers chip in for some of the cost? But as time passed, as distress hit the steel towns and major segments of U.S. industry began to stifle for lack of steel, Phil Murray and Bethlehem decided to get down from abstract principle and talk cents...
...Cleveland last week, gathering for its eleventh convention and looking a little white around the lips, the C.I.O. got ready to perform a major operation on itself. The trouble was an old and chronic one - its chronically inflamed Communist appendix...
...national minimum wage was raised from 40? to 75? an hour last week. The bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
...University's major investments are in U. S. government bonds, public utilities, railroads, insurance companies, A. T. and T., oil companies, and other equally safe and conservative groups...
...failure of the recession to lower appreciably the major expenses added to college and university problems. Although a few such items as food cost Harvard a bit less, wages and salaries continued to rise. The individual increases were small but of big overall importance, for wages and salaries are 60 per cent of the University's total outlay...