Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What kept both sides from budging was the steel industry's determination to turn collective bargaining into a "two-way street," as Cooper put it. In most big strikes in the U.S. since World War II, the fight was about the difference in size between the package management offered and the package the union demanded. But this time the steel industry brought to the bargaining table not an offer, but some demands of its own: contract changes to give management more control over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract...
...face of Italian Fascism. He left his law books once more to help found the Christian Democrat Party in the 1940s, and since 1944 has regularly held Cabinet posts in the government. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1950, he drafted the land-reform bills that helped turn back Italy's rising Communist tide, ultimately freed nearly 2,000,000 acres of privately owned land for distribution among 150,000 peasants. Two hundred and fifty of those acres came from Segni's own estate...
...position from which they can, if things go sour, charge the G.O.P. with being "soft on Communism." Yet no Democratic presidential candidate in his prudence would ever get that far out on such a limb; Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is too great and, what is more, things might turn out far from sour. That being the case, the party position-staking last week was left to a Democrat who is not running for any office at all. And next year Democratic candidates may be claiming that they agreed all along with "that great Democratic ex-Secretary of State, Dean...
...negotiations with Khrushchev-the summit meeting, Eisenhower's visit to Russia, or whatever-should turn into trouble, or even into increased tension between the U.S.S.R. and the West, the position taken by Dean Acheson would become a valuable platform for a Democrat to stand...
...Oriente Province 125 youths attempted to storm the Moncada army post, manned by over 1,000 soldiers. Their leader, Fidel Castro, was counting upon the elements of surprise and timing to overwhelm the garrison, and later claimed that if a group of 45 men had not made a wrong turn on the outskirts of Moncada he would have succeeded...