Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers a good (for England) minimum weekly wage ($14 for men, $10.50 for women), provides increases for any group of workers which lowers the man-hour cost per unit. Says he: "If all British industries would adopt such an incentive scheme, we'd clear up our economic troubles overnight...
...Yorktown. Washington was in New England contemplating an attack on New York-the French had landed 5.000 troops (who startled Americans by rigidly re- fraining from even minor thefts) to help him, and a big French fleet was preparing to sail from the West Indies. But Washington decided almost overnight to move against Cornwallis instead. The French war vessels moved to Virginia, too, and after five weeks of fast marching, Washington laid siege to Yorktown with 16,000 French and Continental soldiers. Cornwallis had gone to earth between the York and James Rivers, on a narrow peninsula, which...
...Harvard Property, especially at the time of the fire in Winthrop House on May 2nd, make it necessary to warn students that both City and University officials agree that more drastic enforcement of these regulations should be taken. The attention of students is called to the city ordinances prohibiting overnight parking and parking at any time in restricted areas and also to the University regulations which provide penalties for violations of city ordinances...
However, some Southerners are afraid that this formula may prove too little and too late. Southerners complain that there are too many "whole hog or nothing" Negroes. This is only partly true. No Southern Negro seriously wants or expects complete equality overnight. But all Southern Negroes want it as an ultimate goal?and they want to see faster progress towards that goal. They have become suspicious of "gradualism." They want to know, as one Negro leader puts it: "When does Old Man Gradualism run out?" The Southern Negro's mood may be summed up by the case of the successful...
...came," says Alfred Fuerbringer. From Monday through Thursday no one was permitted off the campus after supper, movies were forbidden except on weekends, and the college choir was permitted brief excursions within Nebraska, but no farther. Popular President Fuerbringer soon changed all that. His students now can get overnight leaves and go to the movies any time they want, and the choir is just back from a tour through Texas and Louisiana...