Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before making its evenhanded report, the board had taken a sweeping view of the whole U.S. economy. It came down from the mount with a warning to both management and labor. It warned industry that it had no right to use up and then discard the human components of its structure. It warned the nation's steelmakers that excessive profits from production should be equitably shared through lower prices. At the same time, it sounded an implicit warning to labor that benefits cannot be won at the expense of industry's good health. In other words, the board...
...Steelworkers were doing all right compared with other factory workers; since 1939 and 1941, their wage increases had been above the average...
Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...
Lolling. Odium, who lives on a ranch at Indio, Calif., spends long hours in his swimming pool to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. A long telephone extension permits him to conduct business right from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year...
...point on to its tragic end, most of Call It Treason is Happy's story. His plane had been spotted, and he found himself in a world where everybody seemed to be talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just the right moment); he also suffered from blunders-his own and those of the men who had trained him. American phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared their defeat...