Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important to note that the United Mine Workers in their trial of the issues actually waived their claims for walking-time on the employer's premises, before punching the time-clocks and for time spent in preliminary activities-the very gist of the Mt. Clemens decision...
...Marshal Tito's outdated confidence that the U.S. would look the other way. Communist Tito had been a great war hero to the U.S.; overnight he became the focus of U.S. wrath. Byrnes, sitting in a buzzing Conference session at Paris, spent two hours writing Tito a note that told him where he stood with a nation that had learned at last that the price of peace could be too high...
Since influenza seems to be a regular aftermath of war, U.S. health officers have been on the lookout for an epidemic. Last week they were pleased to note that so far flu had been unusually hard to find. The season's total to date-26,977 cases-is only one-ninth that for the same period last year. The Army, too, has the lowest rate of colds and flu in years. Though spring is still a long way off, health officials hopefully observed that a flu epidemic, if it comes at all, is usually well under way by November...
...Mostly he spoke extemporaneously (65 minutes). Occasionally he slipped on horn-rimmed spectacles, read a note. I have never seen an orator who held an audience in the palm of his hand so easily and confidently. Soekarno would speak slowly, then at machine-gun pace. Some times he shook a finger at the audience, again he stood arms akimbo and bit off his words. The fascinated audience laughed with him, grew serious with him, sympathized with him when he said he had just come from a sickbed and had to wear a light raincoat (which he took off after half...
Bank of America on a note guaranteed by the Henry J. Kaiser Co. and Joseph Frazer personally...