Word: sop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sop to the low-paid teachers (salary range: $2,650 to $5,650), the board approved $400-a-year raises. But the gesture was quickly hooted down. While 500 angry teachers demonstrated outside school headquarters at no Livingston Street, Brooklyn, nearly 200 who had jammed into the meeting room answered the board's action with angry speeches and boos of derision. Frankly skeptical of a promise to continue fighting for the salary scale ($3,000 to $6,500) recommended by a city fact-finding commission, the teachers defiantly announced that they would continue their boycott: "Thirty-five thousand teachers...
...restrict consumer credit further. It needs new authority from Congress to require banks to hold additional reserves, possibly in government bonds. It could do much more if it chose a course of bold action, which might not stop short of parting ways from the Treasury; it could then sop up purchasing power by selling bonds in the open market...
This week, although the strike was over, nothing was really settled in a wage dispute which had been going on for almost two years. As a small sop, the Army temporarily boosted wages by half the amount the carriers had agreed to pay last December (an amount which the brotherhoods had rejected). No one expected the brotherhoods to be satisfied with that. The brotherhoods smarted under their defeat, under the President's harsh words, and, incidentally, under a federal judge's verdict that William P. Kennedy's Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen was in contempt of court...
...trend" much quicker than his high-budgeted competitors. He can also latch on to a trend more quickly. In ten days and for $91,000, he was fluid enough to put out a picture on space ships (Rocketship X M) in time to sop up the publicity being lavished on the then forthcoming Destination Moon. He beat every other studio to the Korean war with The Steel Helmet (now doing well enough to promise a $2,000,000 gross). Lippert prefers not to say what Helmet cost, while he is still selling it to exhibitors who dislike paying big rentals...
...strong-arm methods, were not reassured by his non-Fascist pledge. Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around by promising to support the armed forces' request for additional funds...