Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doors" until he can find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...
...living was ridiculous; that the "actual" living cost had rocketed 45% since January 1941. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that living costs have gone up only 24%.) After the war, the unions fear they will lose the special wartime conditions that fattened pay envelopes : overtime, upgrading and night-shift premiums...
Transition. Groundwork for the shift was laid early this year when General Marshall ordered his personnel officer, Major General Miller G. White, to take inventory. "Counting the Army" was no easy job, had to be taken up theater by theater...
...belligerent emotions. But also like a bagpipe, he is monotonously limited in range and variety. Last week it was announced that Columnist Pegler will shortly begin piping for a new audience. When his contract with Scripps-Howard and its United Feature Syndicate ends in November, the Pegler column will shift to Hearst and Hearst's King Features Syndicate...
First a Plea. On the strike's third day the Army moved in. Under a Presidential order, Major General Philip Hayes took control of the city's transit system. He broadcast instructions to the strikers to return to work at the next 5:30 a.m. shift and sent two soldiers to raise an American flag over the carbarn where the strikers made their headquarters. As the flag flapped up to the top of the pole one of the strikers began to sing the Star Spangled Banner. About 2,000 shirt-sleeved, sweaty strikers joined in. Even James McMenamin...