Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motors plants, where peace was made two months ago, a sort of guerrilla labor war went on in the form of brief, "spontaneous" sit-downs. The workers' willingness to strike at the drop of a hat was best illustrated at the Oldsmobile plant. There one afternoon the day shift finished work ten minutes early. Members of the night shift found them idle, and practical jokers announced they had "sat down." Result: a real sit-down by the night shift...
...greater than in nondurable, but it is also true that most of the men still unemployed need to be employed in durable goods industries."* Since the pump of heavy industry had been fully primed, no one seriously objected to a cessation of Government spending for that purpose. But to shift the spending into consumer channels only delayed the effect, since increased consumption would soon lead to expansion and modernization of nondurable goods industries, thus in turn stimulating the demand for durable goods. What seemed to be needed at this stage of Recovery, said most economists, was less Government spending...
President Conant's recent commentary on a shift away from the Classics and Romance Languages as fields of concentration found some support yesterday in University C's report on tentative 1940 concentration preferences...
...rank of Air Marshal in reward for his Century of Progress flight, embracing him publicly while ecstatic Romans huzzahed, and then packing him off to be Governor of Libya, puncturing the world bubble of his fame, so that today not everyone remembers Italo Balbo. This sort of abrupt shift Il Duce constantly employs as a method, calls it ""changing the guard," keeps even Fascism's greatest dignitaries ever on the qui vive, for no Cabinet Minister can be sure the next ring on his telephone may not mean promotion, transfer or eclipse...
...instantaneous shift last week from Jeffersonian history to the Mohammedan present, Dictator Mussolini received the homage of an assemblage of tribesmen led by Mohammed Abd-el-Gheder who cried: "All peoples will declare that your visit to Libya has bound the East to the West and has united Islam and Italy! Allah, through you, is restoring peace and pros perity to mankind." Off in a motorcade of 60 cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual...