Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Housing Note. In Paterson, N.J., Lillian Rentmeister was wed to Harry Fivehouse...
...Note of Cheer. In his friendliest, let's-be-reasonable manner, "Hump" Mitchell turned the delegation down. Removal of wage control, he said, would breach the Government's anti-inflation barrier. Hump shifted his spectacles to his nose's tip, wagged a warning forefinger: "If you give effect to this [strike] policy, you will be endangering the organizations you represent." On that note the interview ended...
...refusal to grant a $2-a-day increase and a 40-hour week. But in eastern Ontario 2,000 dairy farmers, representing 40,000 producers, threatened to call a milk strike on June 15 if their prices were not raised $3 per 100 lbs. There was only one note of cheer. The two-month-old strike of 400 National Brewery employes in Montreal finally ended last week. The strikers went back to work, though they had been granted none of their demands...
...Crump, foxy-grandpa boss of Memphis (TIME, May 27), said he had received an extortion note, but declared that he was positively not disconcerted. The threatening note ran; "Pay $50,000 or we will kill you or your wife at a certain date. . . . You will be contacted as to where the payoff is to take place and when. Revised Capone, Inc." The extortionists, theorized brave Boss Crump, "know that an election is coming on and are hoping to disconcert me. But it will have no effect...
...needs. Come good times or bad, the price of nickel, 35? a pound, has not changed in 18 years. In the same period even monopolistic Alcoa dropped the price of aluminum from 24? to 14?. Last week the U.S.' Government, despite pressure from the Canadian Government, finally took note of this...