Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reading that Pope Pius had decorated [William Randolph] Hearst, for "civic qualities, comprehension of spiritual values, and devotion to humanity" [TIME, Sept. 26], I gave up on the human mind and decided henceforth to take all my problems, spiritual and otherwise, to the new electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time...
...Murray saw it, workers should not have to put up a red cent. He argued that anything they were forced to put up for their welfare would represent a deduction from their take-home...
Henry Ford II, after reading the steel fact finders' report, said in effect to his executives: "There's no reason why we should have this shoved down our throats. Let's take the lead on pensions." Last week Ford's Vice President John Bugas offered Walter Reuther an 8 3/4 ?-an-hour, company-financed pension...
...dollars would be large. As the all-day, all-night session went on, tempers fired up and threats emerged. McCloy threatened to use the U.S.'s veto on economic matters, which he is given by the High Commission Charter. François-Poncet threatened in turn to take the dispute back to his government...
Right wing Ben Goldstein, who played last week despite his leg injury, seemed fully fit at practice yesterday. But inside left Charlie Weiss remains a doubtful starter. If Weiss can't play, Ted Wolf, who scored one of last week's four goals, will take as place...