Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good sign was G.M.'s prompt promise to make any final agreement retroactive to April 28, and the union's prompt acceptance of the board's proposal to keep work in all G.M. plants going at full tilt. Conciliator James Dewey, already on the scene, was urged to continue his labors until a delegation...
...Prompt was Couper El-Gailani's reply...
...importance. Last week Washington opinion was that the Yugoslav coup had tipped the scales against a Japanese move toward Singapore and the South Pacific. Said hopeful Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "Japan will not make the mistake made by Italy in assuming a prompt end to the war, and a termination altogether favorable to Germany, in view of the events of the last 30 days." U. S. foreign policy was at any rate beginning to take an active part in the development of the world struggle...
TIME'S new production index will give businessmen each Thursday an estimate of the production level in the week ended the previous Saturday. In the following issue, this figure will be made final. Thus businessmen will have 52 prompt recordings of the trend and level of industrial production throughout the year...
From a Lowell, Mass, admirer came prompt reaction in grave scrawl to Wendell Willkie's Lincoln Day address: "Dear Mr. Willkie, Your speech last night was very good. I heard my grandfather jump up and down. The poor cat and dog were scared stiff. In the afternoon I went out and slid with a tin pan. I am nine years old, and am in the fourth grade. Sincerely yours, Hilda Thompson...