Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much outrage. The pilots, among the world's most skilled employes, are the backbone of the aviation industry, have frequently suggested technical improvements from which all management has profited. Moreover, the pilots have to make their money while they can-once they fail to pass the rigid physical examinations required by the Civil Aeronautics Board, their careers are over...
...much tougher. It requires employers to bargain collectively with their employes, forbids firing for union activity. But it also prohibits unions from forcing workers into joining, from promoting or engaging in slowdowns, from conducting union campaigns during working hours. And unlike the Wagner Act, it lays down a rigid procedure for handling all labor disputes...
Ever since the President returned from Christmas in Missouri, his personal physician, Colonel Wallace Graham of Kansas City, has kept him on a rigid reducing program. As soon after 5 p.m. as possible, the President pops into a sweatbox beside the White House pool, stews for a few minutes. Then he is let out to face a long, canvas-covered board, slanted at a 45° angle...
...bite of a black-widow spider, which is common all over the U.S., is seldom fatal-but the pain is well-nigh unbearable. The victim suffers from something called arachnidism. He thrashes around in agony for one or two days, hurts for several more. His abdomen becomes as rigid as a board. His legs draw up in a series of spasms. None of the 60 remedies so far recommended by the medical books gives very notable relief from the spider's bite...
...tenebrous tones Churchill surveyed the Spartan boundaries of Labor's promised land. "All enterprise, all initiative is baffled and fettered. The queues are longer, the faces are longer, the shelves are barer, the shops are emptier. . . . Whole spheres of beneficial activity are frozen rigid and numb because this Government had to prove their Socialist orthodoxy...