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...union security"-maintenance of membership, voluntary checkoff, compulsory arbitration is the essential quid pro quo which the unions gave in agreeing not to strike...
...tons of reclaim (about one-third of U.S. two-year capacity) it can recap enough old tires, make enough new ones of reclaimed rubber to meet the irreducible minimum-replacement demand to keep all present cars on the road. But the press underplayed the industry's quid pro quo for the miracle: To achieve it, said the tiremen, every car, truck and bus in the U.S. will have to cut its usual mileage an average of 25% (which means much more than a 25% cut for a lot of nonessential mileage). Moreover, nobody at all can drive more than...
Under the circumstances there is no quid pro quo for the U.S. to open its heart or its plans to Russia. Litvinoff does not ask that. But there is another basis for U.S.-Russian relations: this war is going to be won by nations that are tougher than Germany and Japan. If the U.S. is willing to be a tough guy it can play ball with tough Russia. Against a common enemy they can operate together with profit and yet each for himself...
Perennial, hay-whiskered, quid-chompin William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 72, onetime (1932-35) Governor of Oklahoma, announced himself a candidate for Senator, said he would make two or three speeches a day "if I receive donations for campaign expenses sufficient to hire a driver to carry me from place to place...
...State Department agent explained the situation. U.S. diplomats and newsmen are hibernating in corresponding comfort at Bad Nauheim in central Germany, pending exchange. In this war without honor, unlike World War I, the only way of insuring good treatment of U.S. diplomats caught in enemy territory is by strictly quid pro quo treatment. Said William Perry, Mayor of White Sulphur Springs: "We . . . are happy to have this privilege of doing our part during the war crisis...