Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
...clock one morning last week, 20,000 Western Electric installation men tore up their picket signs and went back to work for an 11½? hourly raise. The six-week-old telephone strike, dead in spirit since the operators capitulated three weeks ago, was also dead in fact...
Love Thy Boss. From Moscow came a different kind of critique. In the Soviet magazine Culture & Life, Pravda Correspondent Yuri Zhukov tore into Hollywood with a party-line vengeance. The U.S. movie monopolies, declared the article indignantly, had actually abandoned the profit motive in order to reel off anti-Communist propaganda. Wrote Zhukov: "Hollywood films advertise American capitalists as noble, wealthy persons who should be imitated and obeyed. . . . They propagate patience and obedience on the part of submissive girl workers, showing finally how they win the love of their bosses or his son. . . . Crimes are incited by 'dangerous Reds...
Signs of Peace. There were already other signs that peace was at hand. In Manhattan last week, 50,000 Western Union employees tore up their 25? demands, accepted a 5? "downpayment" raise. The oldest dispute in the nation was finally settled: on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, which had suffered more than five years of wrangling, Government seizure and bloodshed, culminating in the murder of President George McNear Jr. (TIME, March...
After victory in 1918, the British tore down the fortifications, but in spite of the protests of the proud, German-hating Frisians who lived on the island, Helgoland was left to Germany. By 1936, Hitler's tractors and bulldozers had moved in. Helgoland's receding shores (in 300 years four-fifths of the island had washed away) were buttressed with granite and bound with huge chains. Submarine pens with walls twelve feet thick, harbors, and eight miles of tunnels were built...