Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gilded and exclusive union. Its members earn salaries like $9,000 (pilot on a domestic run) and $12,000 (senior pilot on a transatlantic schedule). Most of them shudder at the thought of taking in other airline employes such as mechanics or clerks. But they have their own airtight method of enforcing a closed shop...
...World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every dot and comma, he is not satisfied. I throw that back in his teeth." Said Gromyko: "The method adopted by Mr. Fraser is far from wise. I might equally throw that back...
...implications of this discovery are great, Leet emphasized. It will prove useful in modern mineral prospecting by the painless method of remote control, a vast improvement over the "pick, pan, and pray" system employed during the Yukon and 1849 gold rushes...
...family units assigned to the University by the Federal Public Housing Authority last week, and preference will be given to those who have children. According to officials of the Straus Hall Housing Office, the buildings will not be ready for occupancy before June, at the earliest, and the method, of selecting tenants has not yet been devised...
...purpose of this particular box is to show the continuity and motivation of the various columns. All madness has a method, and the popular denunciation which has greeted these remarks has shown that the method is not clearly understood...