Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well organized, well led, 600,000 members of the United Steelworkers Union last week won a wage increase of "something in excess of" 15? an hour. Class 1 workers, e.g., sweepers, will henceforth get $1.68½ an hour; Class 32 workers, e.g., hot strip mill rollers, will get $3.54½ an hour. The new average will be about $2.50 an hour. "This raise is money ahead," exulted a steelworkers' leader. "Our men won't keep it. They'll buy more TV sets and automobiles. It will be a terrific shot in the arm for the economy...
...fringe of nowhere in the heart of South America, the Paraguayan town of Pedro Juan Caballero and the Brazilian town of Ponta Porã doze in the green, rolling forests of the Amambay plateau. A broad, straight strip of grass between the red-roofed towns marks the international border. But they really form a single frontier community of bearded, mud-stained Gauchos, Syrian merchants, Redemptorist priests, barefoot women, and soldiers in faded green uniforms...
...assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells and set two world records in the process. "We rarely have such weights lifted," said the solemn Russian...
...Mans. France. First, it was still the supreme test of driving skill and sports-car durability. And second, it was growing increasingly risky because of the conglomeration of big cars, e.g., Mercedes, Ferrari, Jaguar, and little cars, e.g., Gordini, MG, Porsche, racing side by side on a strip that in some places is little wider than an old-fashioned two-lane U.S. highway. During the trials, the Mercedes team's Pierre Levegh, a 49-year-old veteran of 20 years' driving, coasted into the pits after one close brush with a little 2-liter French Gordini and told...
...Budget, and was delegated the task of "studying the operation of government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency." Alan Barth, editorial writer of the Washington Post and a sharp critic of congressional investigative techniques, has argued that "It is one thing to strip Congress of its investigatory power and quite another to strip a committee of power which Congress never delegated to it... The deference due Congress ... is not due a committee of subcommittee spuriously acting in the name of Congress...