Word: plight
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...wage, with an automatic increase to 40? in 1945; it also provided for time-and-a-half for overtime in a work-week gradually scaled down from 44 to 40 hours. The law covered only workers in major industries engaged in interstate commerce - it was mainly aimed at the plight of poorly paid textile workers in the South, did nothing for housemaids or migrant farm workers. Congress raised the minimum to 75? in 1949, to $1 in 1955. This week Congress will try to resolve the wide differences between John Kennedy's bill, passed last week by the Senate...
...North Carolina/ Where the Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like that," then quickly ground out the lyrics and set them to the music of There's a StarSpangled Banner Waving...
Just as it was about to go down for the third time, ailing, debt-ridden Capital Airlines last week found a healthy and willing rescuer. After five weeks of carefully examining Capital's plight-and sizing up its own chances of emerging unhurt-United Air Lines, the second largest U.S. airline (after American), offered to take over Capital's fleet, facilities, routes and debts in a "merger" that amounted to outright acquisition. The rescue ends Capital's financial troubles, but it also ends Capital, the first major U.S. airline to succumb to the crushing new pressures...
...Apartment. The riotous plight of a junior executive whose too-convenient apartment is used by his amorous bosses for their affairs and by Producer-Director-Writer Billy Wilder to show his cynically sentimental view of human nature...
...Apartment. The often riotous plight of a junior executive whose too-convenient apartment is used by his amorous bosses for their affairs and by Producer-Director-Writer Billy Wilder to show off his cynically sentimental view of human nature...