Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Worried by a sales slump which laid off 38 workers, the retail clerks union in John Wanamaker's New York store took an unusual step; it shrewdly decided to woo the public instead of damning the management. Union members appropriated $6,000 for newspaper advertisements and mail circulars to...
Man, it appeared, could go down as well as up. He could go all the way down to Buchenwald, and beyond that to the place where he could say he did not know whether he or another was guilty of Buchenwald. Without World War II's dreadful lesson of...
A Matter of Tinkering. It was generally agreed, that the conference would produce no definitive, radical or inspiring solution. It seemed likely that a series of short-range adjustments, like a shovelful of gravel under a skidding wheel, might help pull Britain out of the immediate financial mudhole in which...
¶ Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to...
U.S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek explained the change. A Czech Foreign Office official had called him up and said: "Mindszenty is a criminal. Having his picture in the window is an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia."