Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death for the Invader-At each end of a spacious hall in the Escuela Republica de Mexico stood a volcanic panel in which huge figures, with muscles gleaming like polished automobile fenders, strove and squirmed in apocalyptic combat. In the north panel, symbolizing the history of Mexico, a many-armed, many-legged, colossal bowman, representing the Aztec hero Cuauhtemoc, bestrode the prostrate body of a Spanish invader, while such heroes as Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata and Lazaro Cardenas looked appreciatively...
...south panel (see cut) gave a Marxist-eye-view of the history of Chile. It was dominated by a gigantic figure of the Araucanian Indian chief Galvarino, roaring and waving the stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected...
Little Steel Test Case. Before WLB was the "Little Steel" wage dispute, brewing and bubbling since last February. The C.I.O. wanted $1 a day more for its 157,000 Little Steel workers. A WLB fact-finding panel, considering only the simpler arithmetic of the demand, found that the companies could afford it: they are so busy now with war orders that all but $2,850,000 of the $47,500,000 annual boost would have come out of excess-profits taxes...
Chief points made by the fact-finding panel to justify a wage increase: 1) The cost of living has gone up 13.3% since the last steel wage increase (which was just over 12%). This is true, but it overlooks two other points: going back to the war's beginning in September 1939, hourly steel wages have gone up slightly more than the cost of living and weekly earnings have risen more than twice as fast...
...Over 100 jewels are used in the instrument panel of a big U.S. bomber. Others are in its bombsight...