Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks. The Union conditions are said to include an increase in average daily pay from $14.05 to $15.00; a reduction from eight to seven hours a day with no pay cut; an increase of 10 or 20 cents a ton in royalty payments; and a production control plan to spread available work among all miners. Management is reportedly against any sort of raise...
...great steel mills lay cool and dead and some 500,000 steelworkers hit the streets. Another 500,000 would be called out of steel-fabricating plants the minute Philip Murray thought the right strategic moment had come. In a slower, creeping fashion-if the shutdown lengthened-unemployment would spread to railroads, auto plants, thousands of steel-dependent factories. In the wink of an eye last week, the nation's economic backbone was paralyzed by the first industry-wide steel strike since the walkout...
...flasks of Chianti. In an open-air kitchen, three cauldrons five feet tall steamed with a never-ending supply of spaghetti. Enthusiastic eaters hacked their way through mountains of food at 450 lire (75?) a meal. After lunch, many stretched out under the shady trees, took off their shoes, spread a copy of Unita over their eyes, and slept...
These and similar statements were made last August by one of the few U. S. youth groups to recently penetrate the "Iron Curtain." Similar beliefs are still actively being spread by this group...
...meeting was held in a park, and to "preserve security," the speaker asked for "last initials only" and shooed away passers-by. The speaker stated, according to Warshaw's notes, that the "rumors are being spread to defame the present regime ... to disrupt the delegation." He went on to say that a girl within the group had admitted the night before that she was guilty of spreading rumors...