Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seemed to be no way to achieve industrial peace except by giving labor what Sam Gompers once set as labor's chief aim: "More and more." In the spring of 1946 a kind of climax occurred. The great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President...
...high prices and living costs. They expected that spot deliveries would be commonplace by year's end. Emerson Radio likewise took a dim view of the size of the market. In the first big break in radio prices, it reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model. There was little doubt that department-store buying, which had lagged since Christmas, was well down from the peak. Last week's sales were only 9-13% in dollar volume above those of a year ago. Counting the price rise in a year, current unit sales are probably below last...
Five delegates and an observer from the United Nations Council will journey to Smith today to participate in a two-day model U.N. Conference, along with 14 other colleges...
Executive positions will be held by two of the delegates when the meeting convenes this afternoon. W. Baird Bryant '50, vice chairman of the Council, will preside over the entire conference in his post as president of the model Security Council. Eliot S. Berkley '46 will be Secretary-General...
Jointly sponsored by the Harvard AVC and the Cambridge city AVC group, the theatre registration drive had been planned on a model of a similar successful undertaking in Pittsburgh where over a hundred dwelling units were uncovered...