Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days or less). But even then it will have nothing exclusive. Reason: CAB also extended the North Atlantic route of Trans World Airline from Bombay to Shanghai. There T.W.A. will team up with Northwest to offer a joint one-ticket globe-girdling trip that is 2,000 miles shorter and more complete than Pan Am's. (Hustling to get the jump on their new rival, Northwest and T.W.A. announced that they plan to inaugurate the service within three months...
...language "pork chops" is more pay and shorter hours and more power for his Communist-line National Maritime Union. In Washington last week, Big Joe Curran pounded the table and argued raucously for the works. He had not confronted the President yet. Shipping might never be paralyzed. But it was a threat that hung over the room, where men were running out their bluffs as time ran out to a June 15 strike deadline...
...must decide where to stop in handing out college educations. "We cannot afford the mistake ... of training too many for the professions and too few for other . . . functions in the economy. . . . We should thus give close attention ... to the possibility of developing a new intermediate group of technical institutes." Shorter than the four-year standard colleges, they would offer certificates instead of A.B.s and B.S.s...
...Wait until next year," he added, "we're going to bat with five cent cigars, and they'll get shorter every inning 'cause we're gonna smoke 'em in between...
...happily over dividends increased 150% over 1932's, management turns sedate somersaults at sales figures, and junior board members chomp joyfully on a special slice of the profits (three weeks' pay in 1945). The loudest cheers naturally come from employes: their work-week is stable, well paid, shorter. Union organizers have long since decided that the McCormick lily neither wants nor needs their gilding...