Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a brash minority objected to a C.I.O. endorsement of the Marshall Plan, Murray let fly at them. The dissenters included James Durkin, boss of the office workers' union, Donald Henderson, boss of the tobacco workers, and Abe Feinglass, an officer of the fur workers. "I do not say that everyone who is opposed to the Marshall Plan is a Communist," said Murray, "but I do say that every Communist is opposed to the Marshall Plan...
...hour (it was $1.25 in 1945), and 19½? to $2.82 an hour overtime. The boosts were retroactive to Aug. 21, 1948. The new one-year contract will run to Sept. 30, 1949. Other terms gave longshoremen a better break in their working hours and vacation plan, and guaranteed a welfare fund to be worked out by a joint management-labor committee. The welfare and vacation provisions were what worried shipping men, who said they had taken "an old-fashioned shellacking...
...terms by an overwhelming vote. Some 250 ships in ports from Maine to Virginia, tied up for 18 days at an estimated loss of $30,000,000 a day in New York City alone, began to move. Longshoremen began loading some $36,000,000 worth of piled-up Marshall Plan cargoes...
Under the plan, a student will be able to buy a "purchase card" from NSA for a dollar. This will entitle him to a discount of from 10 to 20 percent at all the stores agreeing to the plan...
Cambridge merchants will not be asked to join in the plan in the near future, Bornstein disclosed. He reasoned that Cambridge business has a firmer grip on student trade than Boston does, and that since many of the participating colleges are in Boston, the committee will work on selling the program to Boston first. Wheaton College in Attleboro, however, has made so much progress that the Wheaton girls may be the first to enjoy the program, he said...