Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help pay the expense, the industry forthwith upped basic steel prices $3 a ton. As usual, steel will probably set a national pattern for the year: peaceful labor agreements, with 5?-an-hour wage raises, more fringe benefits and slight price rises...
Since 1945 the atomic bomb has hung over their heads. Thermonuclear bombs intensify a fear that never leaves any British subject for long. Airmen agree that eight or ten H-bombs, dropped on a well-planned pattern, would bring utter destruction...
...Force the mechanism which we felt was essential to determine when this bomb went off." As a result of this and other actions by Oppenheimer, General Wilson testified: "I felt compelled to go to the Director of Intelligence to express my concern over what I felt was a pattern of action that was simply not helpful to national defense." A Unique Scope. The testimony ranged all the way to those who bluntly questioned his loyalty. David Tressel Griggs, professor of geophysics at the University of California at Los Angeles, new weapons consultant for the Air Force during World...
WAGE NEGOTIATIONS between U.S. Steel and the C.I.O.'s Steelworkers to set a pattern for the industry are going smoothly, may result in a settlement within the week. Joint union-management committees have reportedly worked out a package deal, with increased fringe benefits (notably pensions and hospitalization) but no flat wage increase...
...wellhead. Now the FPC must exercise a power it does not want. Nevertheless, the commission, under Chairman Jerome Kuykendall, plans to reopen rate hearings immediately for the Phillips Petroleum Co., the big independent producer that carried the gas case to the Supreme Court, and try to set a rate pattern for other independents...