Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westwood when it was just an ambitious real-estate scheme superimposed on a field of lima beans. He sank his last $450 in a two-chair shop...
...young M.P. has set his scheme in motion in 30 other countries including France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, and many of the Empire's Dominions as well as the United States...
Bluster & Ballyhoo. What these facts proved was that bluster and ballyhoo had been a big force in wartime Washington. The final super-cargo-plane contract turned out to be for only three 200-ton craft. Kaiser lost interest in the scheme and later bowed out, muttering darkly about a "mysterious kiss-off." With Hughes on his own, the contract shrank to one plane which has never yet flown...
Leonard and other U.A.W. leaders now charged that the company had "reneged," that the pension scheme which the union was asked to sign was not the same as the one promised; parts had been added, parts left out. The union accused the company of downgrading its initial participation from an original $200,000,000 to about $180,000,000; of cutting an understood $15,000,000 in annual contributions to the fund about in half; of refusing to give the union a voice in administering the fund...
...Bugas, Ford's industrial relations chief, hotly denied that the company was welching on the original "gentlemen's agreement." But, since the U.A.W. had brought the plan up as a strike issue, the company would also use it as a club; it threatened to withdraw the whole scheme. The union set a strike deadline. A long strike would surely cost the workers the shiny pension model which Ford had offered them. This week the strike was postponed pending more negotiation. But the threat of a struggle neither side wanted remained...