Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headline news of the week was that a steel strike had been postponed-if not averted entirely. For an economy which could stand no rocking of the boat, the bigger news was that the President's three-man fact-finding committee had come out decisively against a fourth-round wage increase...
...firing day at White Sands Proving Ground, N.Mex. A Viking rocket, built by the Glenn L. Martin Co. for the Navy, stood pencil-slim on the launching stand, its gleaming aluminum body surrounded by a gantry crane. Zero hour...
Despite the business-and-fun-as-usual, Osaka, like the rest of Japan, is suffering from severe economic cramps. Last winter, government subsidies were cut drastically and Japanese industry had to stand on its feet or collapse. Osaka unhesitatingly initiated harsh "rationalization" measures, including longer working hours and some firings...
With September's 30 days looming ahead, Stan Musial cannot afford to let his big bat cool off. Although the Cardinals have the best of the schedule (they begin a long home stand while Brooklyn embarks on a perilous western trip), they could very easily blow the pennant if Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion's ailing sacroiliac doesn't behave. Solid, knowledgeable Marty Marion is the steady man who holds the Cardinal infield together...
...would do after that. First John got suddenly drunk in his office. When he sobered up, he withdrew what money he had from the bank and ran out on his wife and on his job in the Department of Public Information. Apparently, all Gregory needed was a chance to stand on his own feet for a while. Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon had him chinning himself on his own self-confidence. He would get a job as a teacher and he and Ellen would enter...