Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts published or still secret had come from a giant mechanism of men and machines, designed specifically to detect an atomic explosion anywhere in the world. When Intelligence got a tip that the Russians had solved the atomic riddle, the mechanism swung into action...
...talks wore on, with the Big Steel negotiators still at loggerheads, the biggest hope for a break appeared this week in an unexpected quarter. In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co. announced that it had offered the auto workers' Walter Reuther a company-paid pension plan in line with the recommendations of the steel board. Ford cautiously reported real progress, and Henry Ford II made plans to leave this week for Europe despite Reuther's peremptory announcement that he was issuing a strike notice, effective Sept. 29. If autos settled, there was still a good chance that steel would...
...hours before the Senate was to learn that McMahon's prophecy was cold, disturbing fact, the fate of the arms plan was still far from certain. Sober, economy-minded Walter George of Georgia, trying to cut the $1 billion appropriation for the Atlantic pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...
While the attitude of the British labor class is still unsolidified, it will soon emerge reflecting "bread-and-butter" objections--desire for wage increases to meet the rising domestic prices consequent with devaluation. So far Sir Stafford Cripps' 20 percent increase in profits taxes does no more than place an unreasonable burden on an already belabored people. The course of future British policy, in the long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great...
Clowns, expert pianists, drama coaches, and experienced lecturers are especially in demand, Mary L. McLain, supervisor of the Entertainment Bureau, said yesterday. Applications for auditions will still be accepted in the Weld Hall office today, she said...