Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.O.P.'s Chance. Did this mean that Harry Truman and the Democratic Party had irretrievably lost a big segment of labor support? That would be the trend to watch and the question to answer between now and the November elections. Republicans had been given a great chance. In the Senate, led by Senator Taft (see Republicans), they had kept their heads. But this week many a Republican member of the House wished he had not stampeded to back Truman...
...least one segment of the University has frankly admitted that co-education, no matter how it is talked about, does not and should not belong here. Memorial Church divines have decreed that the Choir, whose all-male history survived as long as Radcliffe was kept on the other side of Garden Street, shall return to its pre-war status by next fall. Two possible reasons for the decision offer themselves. First, a chorus of men's voices is more musically suitable to religious services. Second, a University which proclaims itself a male institution could not both sponsor a mixed choir...
...production comes from small business (annual gross sales under $5 million). Nearly 80% of industrial labor is employed in small plants (with less than 1,000 on their payrolls). Last week an executive of one such concern went into print with the charge that this vital segment of the U.S. industrial economy was being squeezed to death. In an article in The Atlantic Monthly, building-insulation maker Robert E. Outman said...
...program, if approved by Congress, would thrust Government funds and Government controls deep into the building industry. It would put an important segment of the U.S. economy under wartime discipline at a time when the industry and the country as a whole expected to be returning to the ways of a free market...
...closefisted policy squeezes every bit of profit out of industry in order that some segment of society may apparently be advantaged; the government being the sole judge of this, we will arrive at an economy with our industries nearly all nationalized without a vote of the people-an economic and social revolution of greater proportions than we now realize-one that American labor will rue as much as others...