Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, in the acrimony of Murray's and Fairless' continuing debate. All week they thundered at each other over Western Union's wires. Murray telegraphed Fairless that the operators' attitude was "the public be damned," that steel was trying "to force a strike on the nation." Fairless wired Murray that he was being "dictatorial." Murray fired back that he would like to see Fairless (who was himself in line for a noncontributory pension of $50,000 a year) justify before the public his "attitude of horror towards noncontributory pensions and social insurance" for his workers. Fairless...
This week the disputants traveled to Washington. There, at the head of a delegation of 71 officials of the nation's steel companies, Fairless met a very weary-looking Phil Murray. They posed together for photographers. Said Ching: "Let us all say 'cheese' when we have our picture taken so we will look pretty." Then they got down to business in the Labor building...
While the U.S. warily eyed the storm clouds over the steel industry last week, the storm hit from another direction. John L. Lewis gestured with majestic arrogance to his 480,000 United Mine Workers and they knew what to do. This week the nation's coal mines were shut down by strike...
During the warm summer months the nation's coal stockpiles remained comfortably high-enough for 70 days-despite reduced production...
...however, need read The Crack in the Column as a political guidebook; it is enough that it skillfully portrays the tragedy of a nation, and offers a few memorably sketched figures in the foreground. It is not a simple story, but it is a good one. Greece has deeply affected George Weller-as he says of one of his characters, it has unfitted him for simplicity...