Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investment. Said Reuther in one huge gulp: "This is the time for labor to stand up and say we are getting in trouble because the little guy hasn't got enough and therefore he has to fight harder now to get what he is entitled to in order to avoid going into a depression...
...month ago, Cripps revealed, he had issued a secret order stopping all new dollar purchases. It would stay in effect at least three months. A further period of "restraint and restriction" might lie ahead; that could well mean less food and tobacco from...
Lynx-eyed watchers for signs & portents from the Soviet Union quickly noted that this order of precedence did not jibe with the photograph of the scene; in the picture, Voroshilov, not Malenkov, stood closest to Stalin. The discrepancy gave rise to subtle speculations: Voroshilov merely had the place of honor because it was he who was about to accompany the body to Sofia, but the fact that Pravda mentioned Malenkov's name first meant that the 47-year-old boss of the Communist Party organization was on his way up. Some watchers from afar were also disturbed...
...zany season; even the weather was out of order. By mid-June, a month ahead of schedule, diamonds were baked concrete-hard, taking a lot of the pep out of older players. In St. Louis, where the heat really pours down, a hypnotist offered to help lift the Browns out of the American League cellar free of charge...
...Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...