Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the steelworkers met in Pittsburgh to authorize a strike, the President put on the squeeze. In identical wires to the six major steel companies, he proposed a board of inquiry which would make recommendations on settling the dispute. U.S. Steel Corp.'s stiff-necked Ben Fairless turned it down flat. The Taft-Hartley Act, he pointed out, "is still the law of the land," and it expressly states that a fact-finding board shall be forbidden to make recommendations. The other steelmen took the same line...
...disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from the jury, temporarily excused the former Ku Kluxer at his request, declared a six weeks' recess for the others...
Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
After stalling for a month, Sir Stafford Cripps gave in to his doctors' orders, left for a Zurich clinic to take a six-week treatment for an old ailment (colitis...
...school's airy halls, white tiled laboratories and neatly planted fields, the faculty of 35, some U.S.-trained, conduct 64 courses covering everything from general farming to veterinary medicine and postgraduate research in genetics. Regular students, currently numbering 277 (including six well-chaperoned girls), pay only 220 cruzeiros ($12.32) a year for tuition, twelve cruzeiros (65?) a day for food. The ministry of agriculture makes up the deficit ($356,840 last year...