Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pockets of the workers without raising their hourly rate. (Already, in Chicago, packinghouse workers are preparing to ask slaughterhouse portal-to-portal pay, for time spent putting on work clothes and sharpening knives in the morning; for time spent washing off blood in company showers in the evening.) Success of the Illinois formula would take Lewis a long way in his comeback, a long way toward becoming again the leader of all disgruntled labor...
...plain of Catania, some three miles south of that stoutly defended port. There, for ten days, Germans of the agile Hermann Göring (armored) Division had held the British, waging battles which were still scantily reported in the U.S. press last week. One explanation of this temporary German success probably lay in an Allied communiqué of July 16: "The speed of the advance is very satisfactory, but transport and supporting weapons are of necessity limited during the present stages...
...Four times during the first day, in waves totaling some 130 fighters and bombers, the Japs swept over two fields. Their objective: to drive the American Air Force out of the eastern lowlands back to the mountains, where it would no longer menace Japan's diminishing shipping. Their success: one U.S. plane destroyed on the ground, at the cost of 16 of their own shot down, a probable 19 more...
Henry Ford, as he approached 80, gave his formula for success: "Do your own work, mind your own business and don't engage in controversies. . . . And, above all else, keep away from lawyers. They are bound to get you into trouble...
...doctor should keep systematic records and send bills out on the first of every month. Fees should depend not only on a patient's economic status, but on length of illness, success of treatment (billing is often held up until a doctor is sure), age of patient (since an 80-year-old has not so long to live as a 40-year-old, he should not be charged so much...