Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total reached four to five million and was "sustained for some time." But he saw no sign of that now. The importance of the more-than-seasonal January slump, he said, cannot be gauged until the seasonal pickup in the spring. (The boom still had a good head of steam. Heavy construction awards for the first seven weeks of 1949 topped $1 billion, up 53% from...
...Steam down the river, down to New Orleans...
Winter snow and rain slowed up the building progress on Radcliffe's newest dormitory, but the constructors from McCutcheon Co. office said this week that building will go back on schedule this spring--provided heating contractors come through soon with plumbing and steam heat units...
Another's Poison. The oversupply which brought prices down also brought some cutbacks in production-and employment (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Last week, there were new layoffs and cutbacks, which took some more steam out of labor's fourth-round wage demands. In the New England textile industry, the C.I.O. lost its third arbitration case (for a 10?-an-hour raise) in two weeks...
...Nothing serious, just blowing off a little steam after studying for exams," was Chief Alvin R. Randall's comment last night about the brawl between "townies" and freshmen which developed from a friendly snowfall Friday night. The skirmish brought the Yard's midnight constabulary and several proctors out into the Yard to break...