Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Manhattan hearings held the spotlight, the Administration itself struck an oblique blow for a fourth round of wage raises. Under the Walsh-Healey Act it has the power to set minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...
...Spotlight. In this kind of atmosphere came the explosion on the floor of Congress last week. Louis Johnson's enemies thought they had found two vulnerable places to attack him: he had moved into the Pentagon from a strictly political post as Harry Truman's money raiser; he had resigned his directorship in Consolidated Vultee just three days after he was nominated for the office which must decide the future of Consolidated's controversial...
...Italian Club will walk under the College theatrical spotlight for the second time since the war with the production of "La Famiglia Dell' Antiquario," by Carlo Goldoni, Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 at Agassiz Theater...
...edge of California's Death Valley. Last week, Stan Jones was cruising around Hollywood in a 1949 car, with reporters and photographers on his tail. Overnight, a little tune that he had cooked up around the campfire, called Riders in the Sky, had put him in the spotlight...
...gimmick in the five cent beer is the small glass that surrounds it. The publicity conscious barkeep in New York now in the national spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...