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...teachers begged and scolded, but still the windows got broken. In one year (1946), Chicago's school board paid out $271,897 just to mend windows that the schoolkids smashed. Finally, the exasperated board promised to give $22,000 worth of books to the schools with the fewest broken panes. The plan worked: last year, Chicago's broken schoolhouse panes dropped from...
...compromise. We'll do our best to mend our nefarious ways and you--you just continue to be your exemplary selves...
...first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...
...came clearly through the receiver. The colonel cut them off: "No, no, no! Tomorrow will not do. You don't realize what's happening. I've got the American here. All he keeps saying is 'Now!' Listen, my boy, we've got to mend our bad old ways. I tell you things are different with these foreigners around. Report here instantly...
...make money on cattle, Bob Kleberg runs his feudal domain with the hard fist of a feudal lord. But he has hundreds of miles of fence to mend and mind-and everything within those fences. To outsiders, the feudal fist sometimes seems too hard. There were unpleasant rumbles against the ranch in 1936 when two poachers supposedly disappeared within it. (The Klebergs think that if they really did disappear on their ranch, they might well have got lost and starved to death.) Now, as a good-will gesture, 40 hunters a week are permitted on the ranch during hunting seasons...