Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equal Rights. Finally, he believes that at some stage of a strike-"after three, six or nine months"-employers should be allowed to fire striking employes. This would be a serious blow at the Wagner Act. Under the Wagner Act, no matter how long an employe stays out on strike, his job is safe. "The present definition has decreased too much the employe's risks in a strike and increased the employer's risks...
...exhausts of two locomotives pulling the Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle blended in a syncopated roll as the Pittsburgh-Chicago flyer raced west across the Ohio farmlands. But up the line at Coulter, a hamlet far beyond the trembling glare of the Triangle's headlight, the stage was being set for tragedy...
...most important event on the world stage last week was something that did not happen. Despite its intense interest and ambitions in the Middle East (see below), Russia failed to react when the Persian Government sent troops into Azerbaijan Province to supervise elections and to reassert Teheran's authority. The outcome was U.N.'s first practical victory in its fight to keep the peace...
Between the acts, there was a Battle of Bands-two orchestras playing the same tune-one hot, one sweet. The orchestra's idea of le jazz hot was still in the wah-wah, funny-hat stage of the U.S. display bands of 1930. Maestros Alex Combelle and Andrea Leca were things of beauty in black ties and velvet jackets, but Combelle's gum-chewing guitarist wore a sweater with wide green and yellow horizontal stripes...
...students is involved in the formation of a National Students Congress. He has demonstrated that the clash of political philosophic can be just as important and just as acute in such a setting as the full dress ideological battle being played today on the national and international stage...