Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel, always the pacemaker in industrial settlements. Despite the handicap of a two-year contract, a cut in steel prices, and a no-strike clause, the steelworkers' Phil Murray was still bargaining for all he was worth. Last week he announced that negotiations had taken a new tack. A program of insurance, hospitalization and retirement benefits was under discussion. It would cost the steel companies the equivalent of a 9.6?-an-hour pay increase...
...tack in the plans of the committee was disclosed this week with the announcement that three members of the Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center had been invited to go to the meeting for a short time to present their views on the memorial. Daniel P. S. Paul '46, executives secretary, Thomas S. Kuhn '45, and Thomas L. P. O'Donnel '47 will attend the gathering on behalf of this group of younger alumni...
Thank you for the fine article on Canada's sweetheart. . . . Let us hope that the 12,500,000 prayers you mention tack on as a postscript the request that she never go to Hollywood. More power to Barbara Ann, and kudos to TIME for a most interesting story...
...which he hoped to oust Sosthenes Behn. Ryan estimated that he, his family and his friends already had behind them over 1,000,000 shares of the 6,399,002 shares of l.T. & T. stock. Behn, who always has a weather eye out for squalls ahead, suddenly changed his tack. Last week he offered to talk things over with the Ryan group face to face...
...public squares, angry crowds cried: "Voilà l'empoison-neuse!" One Paris paper called the case "Atropine and Old Lace" (atropine had been found in the viscera of one victim). But Detective Bascou, finally convinced that Nurse Demussy's ex-husband had lied about her, changed his tack. The detective decided that the solution must be a medical one, and began to study the hospital's post-operative treatment of gynecological patients...