Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place one afternoon last week on the overpass-across the street to street car tracks-at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills...
...this time they had me driven to the steps. ... I was bounced on each step. As I went down four or five steps I came to the landing. There were four or five more men who proceeded to administer the blows from that place. This continued until they had me on the cinders by the street car tracks...
...assembling for a meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan (see p. 66) the Steel Workers Organizing Committee last week signed labor contracts with a few more companies including Crucible Steel and American Steel Foundries. Just before the Institute began its deliberations, S.W.O.C. took a more drastic step. It was not yet ready to call strikes against big Bethlehem and National Steel, but it issued a strike call in the plants of three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some...
...teaching innovation is certainly no modernization or spring cleaning of the Law school. The school has always maintained up-to-date methods and material. Neither is this step in imitation of the Yale Law School, which seems to emphasize Business Organization and to permit specialization in the second year. In short, these changes mark no desertion of the venerable Harvard law tradition, which for many years has made the school the leading institution of its kind in the country...
...those big old Packards. Like a Pullman. One of the kind with windows like a showcase. The kind you step into, instead of crawling into. In the front seat, a chauffer. In the back, two elderly ladies, carefully isolated from the hired helmsman by a glass partition. Black dresses, white lace collars and cuffs. Queen Mary hats. Windows scientifically opened two inches as an official welcome to balmy weather...