Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain fact was that Curran and the union did not want to take cutbacks from wartime pay and what goes with it. They hoped that the Labor Board would somehow see it their way. Across the land employers, war-plant workers, fixed-income folk looked on, some holding their breaths. Whatever happened to N.M.U. might happen to a lot of other people one of these days...
...keep what is left of Europe as free as America and England? We don't have to fight the Russians to save something of Europe. But if we are interested in keeping some of Europe democratic, we ought to declare that to be our policy and make it plain to the Europeans themselves, and to the Russians...
...theme of Frogner Park is nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite...
What the war had done to 40 years of patient educational progress was plain to see in battered Manila. Only 20 of the 48 big elementary schools could open. Their makeshift quarters accommodated only a third of the prewar enrollment (112,000). Three of the city's four high schools, which normally served 26,000 students, were hard put to it to take in 4,000. In two of them, students found refugee squatters who refused to budge...
...usual, brokers had many and conflicting explanations for the breaks: the Federal Reserve Board might boost margin requirements to 100%; the war with Japan might end, etc., etc. But the plain fact seemed to be that the market had long been riding for a fall-and at last it fell...