Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave up his regular business in Boston to devote his entire time to the making of models. The Buffalo Museum liked the first production enough to order a complete set of Indian models and, with this contract, the Pitman Studio became a full time operation. It set up shop in Harvard Square, right above the Wursthaus...
...approved this week by the military governors of the three Western zones. After that the legislatures of the eleven West German states will have to ratify it, the German people hold elections to choose a parliament. Target date for the "Federal Republic of Germany" to set up shop: July...
...their child. To keep all in room & board, Dickens lived in a frenzy of ceaseless labor, which was intensified by his sharing in the multifarious experiences and sensations of all the characters in all his novels. Extracts from letters, written while he was busy with The Old Curiosity Shop, illustrate what he meant when he said, "Men have been chained to hideous walls . . . but few have known such suffering and bitterness ... as those who have been bound to Pens...
There are some hopeful factors, however. The agreement of Democratic leaders to frame a bill which "the party could support" might pick up enough votes to pass the House and still re-legalize the closed shop, clean up the non-voting rules which now disenfranchise strikers in plant elections, and provide for legal machinery less abrupt, than the present injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans...
...best hopes for a new labor bill now rest with the Congressional committees which must frame new bills: The Democratic majorities have one more chance to compromise intelligently. If the Taft-Hartley Law remains in effect, many small inequities will continue--not to mention big ones like the closed shop ban. The National Labor Relations Board will have to continue operating under a law parts of which both labor and management have attacked violently; it will be forced to go on throwing out the cases of unions whose officers object to non-communist affidavits or the required finance reports...