Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the final settlement is in steel and autos, the chances are that it will not be picked up as a standard bargaining pattern by many other U.S. unions. Few unions this year have set their sights on G.A.W., and, except in a few isolated cases, all have quickly given up the demands. There was a time when either steel or autos set the standard pattern for most U.S. labor-management negotiations. But the pattern has been broken as U.S. industry has readjusted to a peacetime economy, with some industries booming and others slumping. More and more unions are gauging...
Around the U.S., hundreds of companies have already buttoned up their new contracts with packages ranging anywhere from 2? to 30? an hour, most of them calling for flat pay increases. Even within some industries there has been no exact wage pattern. For example, in the aircraft industry 15,000 East Coast A.F.L. machinists got a raise of between 5? and 7? an hour from Republic Aviation ; in Marietta, Ga. the machinists settled for 7.2? for 12,000 workers at Lockheed, while in St. Louis, another 13,600 machinists were satisfied with only 6? more an hour from McDonnell Aircraft...
According to his theory, this meant that the rock in its core was getting hotter and approaching the melting point. In December came the proof: the volcano had a small but definite eruption. In 1953 and 1954 the pattern was repeated. Whenever the volcano's magnetism diminished appreciably, a period of activity followed in two to six months. The greater the change in magnetism, the stronger the activity...
...handily as a gondola ride. Tourists who do not know what they ought to like in the way of culture can turn themselves over to one of the new package tours being conducted by professional music guides. They pick up the customer at Idlewild Airport, shuffle him through a pattern of the right sights and sounds, then deposit him back on U.S. soil. Typical cost: $1,500 for six weeks...
...most Renaissance paintings. Infra-red exposure for half a minute revealed black pencil lines under the paint (unknown in Francia's works). More important the pencil sketch was not in Francia's style. Under the microscope the painting's craquelure, instead of conforming to the regular pattern, spidered over the painting...