Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order out of Chaos. Such far-flung notions of its job are basic to the nation's most remarkable union. Once dominated by Communists itself, the I.L.G.W.U. is now the pillar of the anti-Communist Left. Despite the heaviest hand in management in all U.S. industry, no other union is so popular with its employers...
From conditions that gave the word "sweat shop" to the language, it has won the most complete welfare program in the U.S. From a snarl of crafts and nationalities, from a rank & file in which women (considered unreliable by organized labor) outnumber men three to one, it has built one of the nation's strongest industrial unions. From chaotic conditions, where there was a strike with every season, it has brought order. It has had no major strike in 15 years...
...I.L.G.W.U.'s domain embraces five buildings in New York (including the old Tammany Hall), 16 in other cities. It runs three FM stations, has just bought an AM station. Its educational department is the nation's best, and the union offers scholarships to Harvard and Wisconsin to deserving young unionists. Its recreation program runs everything from hikes to dance groups...
...Apiece. By the end of June, the Government had in one year poured a whopping $64 million into the pockets of Aroostook potato men, to buy up the surplus from Maine's biggest cash crop. Some of the takes were eye-popping examples of the nation's weirdest experiment in farm pharmacy (total U.S. cost last year: $225 million). At least two Aroostook potato shippers collected Government checks for around $500,000; a dozen or so got more than $150,000 each; at least 31 over $100,000 apiece. In all Maine, 4,503 farmers averaged...
...will he had written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem...