Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 60,000 of Glasgow's Clydeside ship yard workers went on strike last week despite the pleas of their union, the laws of their Government. It was only a 30-minute strike. But it was the first of a threatened series of "token" strikes brought on by the failure of the Engineering Union to speed up negotiations for higher wages...
...above table help and valets (and which has made Annapolis so unpleasant for any Negro appointed that none have ever graduated), is chalked up as a hopeless outpost of feudalism by even the most optimistic colored leaders. The Army has shown a few glimmers of mildly progressive intelligence. A token air force of 100 pilots is being organized at Tuskegee as an answer to the charge that Negroes are admitted only to the infantry. But the military branch of a democracy deserves no credit for ignoring the recommendation of physiologists that American Negroes will make the finest tank drivers...
Boston is the bull's eye in a huge defense target embracing the entire New England area. Production in Germany of a Nazi version of the flying fortress is reported to be under full steam, and a token bombing of New England calculated to panic its people and production would be far from unlikely in case...
...true that much of their cash investment in Mexico has long since been paid off in oil, or written off as a bad debt. But the real value of the properties lies in oil beneath the ground. With Mexico denying their "subsoil rights" (or canceling them with a token payment), they shudder to think what might happen in other countries. In Venezuela, Colombia, elsewhere in & outside the Hemisphere, oil companies have investments that make their Mexican properties look like peanuts...
...toploftical as that. What he really yearns for is a compromise already offered by his company: a long-term operating contract for the companies, after which the properties would revert in tola to Mexico. Failing that, he would rather preserve his principles and his face than accept a token payment...