Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skippers who read the signs got their ships loaded fast and moved up sailing dates. More than 100 managed to steam out of U.S. ports ahead of schedule one day last week. Next day, Joe Curran lowered the boom. Men of Curran's 50,000-member National Maritime Union and two smaller C.I.O. maritime unions went "on the beach" to win themselves higher wages and better working conditions...
...Battle of Midway, military commanders have often been criticized for failing to "exploit the retreat"-that is, for not pressing after a beaten enemy. No such reproach could be made against Lieut. General Van Fleet and his Eighth Army last week. When the battered Chinese Reds ran out of steam in the second phase of their futile spring offensive, they acted as though Van Fleet might be ceremonious and give them a breathing spell. Instead he attacked, and when the Reds withdrew, he chased them and destroyed unit after unit...
...Graduate Dining Hall will keep its doors open and its steam tables hot until June 15 instead of June 12, the date previously announced in the CRIMSON...
...reason for the slashes, said Fleischmann, is that the defense program is picking up steam. He didn't know just how much steam. Nor does NPA have any idea how much metal is now actually being used in defense and essential industries. It hopes to find out when the Controlled Materials Plan goes into effect in July. But even without that knowledge, it has been earmarking ever-increasing chunks of raw materials for defense. For example, U.S. Steel Corp., which makes one-third of the nation's steel, set aside 25% of its March output for defense...
...previously-mentioned wine sale came up in the manner, Brinton explains. Before the war the Society bought 2,000 bottles of the best Burgundy from a French schoolteacher. This supply was stored in an improvised wine cellar in the basement. Unfortunately, the basement room was next to a steam tunnel, and by 1950 the heat had slightly turned at least one of the remaining bottles of wine. So the Society sold all of them to its members...