Word: strife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals and admirals scanned the news of strife and stress in the world and took a worried look at the armed forces' fuel tank. The tank was all but empty. The Army Air Forces were down to a 90-day supply. The Navy has less than half its operating needs. With the U.S. now using as much petroleum as the entire world consumed ten years ago, oil companies had scrambled for bigger shares of the civilian trade, and the services were being squeezed...
Bible Belting. When Quincy Beltram of the International Edge Tool Co. of Newark, NJ. was asked by the state mediation board why he had fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another...
Japan was one of the few countries in the world not seriously divided by the strife between Russia and the West. In almost all other respects, however, Japan's plight was almost as desperate as that of the rest of Asia. (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Detroit, the United Automobile Workers made peace with Ford on the basis of a 7?-an-hour pay increase and a new pension plan-the first in any major auto contract (see BUSINESS). The plan gave some promise of removing insecurity, which in the end underlies all labor strife. Labor leaders and management both hailed it. But it did not affect the main issue. Across the nation, labor's fight on the Taft-Hartley Act would go on until every sentence had been challenged and bitterly tested...
...enforce the Taft-Hartley Labor Act, which he had vetoed and denounced as "unworkable," "burdensome" and "disruptive." Solemnly, last week, he pledged himself to see that the new law was "well and faithfully administered." He called on management and labor to exercise "patience and moderation." Said he: "Industrial strife at this critical time can result only in economic dislocation injurious...