Word: sunkenness
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...Cause of the strike was the refusal of the Vultee Co. to grant wage increases to approximately 3000 men whose basic wage was 50 cents an hour. The union claimed that $20 a week was not enough for a man to support a family decently, and asked that the sunken wage floor in the Vultee plant be raised to 75 cents an hour. With $84,000,000 in profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books, the Vultee Corp. can hardly be said to be struggling with its back to the budget wall in its altruistic and purely patriotic effort...
...Several sunken "shapes" on the bottom of the inner harbor...
...squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would be given a speech...
...took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia. The first night he had to climb up to the iron entrance...
...Britain started, Britons have learned to watch the flight of sea birds. Gulls flying inland means that raiders are coming. But the war has been hard on sea gulls. Diving for fish killed by exploding mines, depth charges and torpedoes, they land on a surface of oil spread by sunken ships, bog down, can fly no more. Last week a Mrs. Yglesias on the Cornish coast went into the business of cleaning gulls. With the assistance of her two daughters she was able...