Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while turning down Murray's demands for a 12½?-an-hour wage hike, the board also took dead aim on the steelmakers. Their modernization program, when complete, should result in higher profits. If these profits were not passed along to the consumer "in the form of lower prices," said the board, then labor would be justified in trying again for higher wages...
Almost as an afterthought the board took one more sortie into steel's economics. For years, Phil Murray's contracts with the gigantic U.S. Steel Corp. have pretty much determined the contracts signed by the rest of the industry. In effect this has given him the weapon of industrywide bargaining and a tremendous power to will over the country's steel mills...
...Presbyterian minister in upstate New York and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year...
...malady spread; there was hardly a corner of Salem without its afflicted maiden. Long weighed down by Indian raids, smallpox and quarrels with London, Salem took to the outbreak of convulsions with something approaching relief, as if a holiday had been declared...
...when even Molly's affection failed to shore him up. Then his sense of guilt became, in his dreams, a 35-lb. monkey that he lugged around on his back. In the Army, morphine had eased the pain from a piece of shrapnel in his liver. Afterwards, Frankie took to the needle because it was easier than coping with life. When Frankie killed Louie Fomorowski, who sold him the stuff, the cops broke Sparrow down and made him squeal. They caught up with Frankie in his flophouse hideaway, broke in the door, and found the man with the golden...