Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Dubinsky's I.L.G.W.U. belongs. Like A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers, its old-line craft unionists cling to the dying faith that wages and hours are labor's only proper concern. If Hutcheson's carpenters or Moreschi's hod carriers got their pork chops, the rest of the world could go hang. Dubinsky insists that pork chops are not enough. He believes that what affects working men anywhere affects working men everywhere...
...Revolution of Sorts. At the bottom of the crisis was a by now familiar phenomenon-the yawning "dollar gap," i.e., the fact that Britain, like most of the rest of the world, spends more dollars than it earns in the U.S. The British have tried to meet the situation by more production, increased exports, by cutting dollar expenditures, and rigging bilateral trade deals with nondollar countries. The chief trouble (in U.S. eyes) is that the British are poor salesmen, do not adapt their products to what is wanted in the U.S. and have prices which are far too high...
...hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire...
Vacancies & Rumors. Vatican customs have by no means changed; Pius XII makes known no more of his plans for consistories and red hats than did Julius III. But this week, as the 73-year-old Pope began a three-week rest period, there were rumors aplenty that a new batch of cardinals would be created before year's end. Reasons: 1) papal tradition designates December (during Advent) as the most appropriate time for creating new cardinals; 2) the Pope will probably be calling a consistory in December anyway, in connection with the ceremonies inaugurating the Holy Year...
...network will broadcast commercial advertising for the first time in its history. But the Rundfunk's directors added an original touch: all of the commercials will be jammed to gether in two half-hour periods; one at 6:30 in the morning, the other at noon. For the rest of the day Bavarian listeners will be on their...