Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council last night completely reorganized its procedure for the National Students Association election which will take place Thursday, April 14, just after return from spring vacation...
...powerful real-estate lobby in Congress is doing its best to emasculate these controls. The real-estate men are claiming that the ceilings have made building unprofitable and are therefore prolonging the housing shortage, that rent controls are making it impossible for landlords to get a "fair return" on their money...
...present bills show some of the influence of this lobby. The House bill extends controls for 15 months, guarantees the ever-mentioned "fair-return," and gives state and city governments local jurisdiction on lifting ceilings completely. The Senate bill is even weaker, providing for an automatic 15 percent jump in rents while it is in effect...
Next morning an agreement was announced: a wage raise of 8⅓%, to $64.35 for a 48-hour, six-day week-the same pay offered previously by the cardinal on condition that the men return as non-union individuals. Cardinal Spellman waived the condition, recognized the new union. Both sides agreed to set up a three-man panel to investigate "future adjustment of hours." The cardinal's seminarians laid down their spades and went back to their classes...
...Bazooka," another "Iron Mike," the third "Overhand Joe." Last week Rickey introduced still another gadget-"Big Inch," a gravity-feed pipeline into which outfielders tossed the ball after shagging long flies. "Big Inch" conducted the balls to a box near the batting cage, prevented a hail of return throws and saved the outfielder's arm for the throwing practice that would come later...