Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Washington as a party member) thought that Communists had any place in teaching. The other 2,882 delegates thought otherwise, and so the N.E.A. voted to bar Communists from both the profession and the association. "At the same time," said the resolution, "we condemn the careless . . . use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers . . . who merely have views different from those of their accusers...
Egyptians, who use their streams and ditches as drinking fountains, laundries, baths and latrines, dislike the tartar emetic cure because, despite months of discomfort, they can be reinfested in 20 minutes. Dr. Barlow is trying to kill the snails which carry the disease by putting copper sulphate in the water (a concentration strong enough to kill snails is still too weak to affect humans...
With the Ford contract on a day-to-day basis, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther insisted that only a surrender by Ford could avert a strike; "We are prepared," cried Reuther, "to use all the weapons possessed by free labor in America." The steel workers talked just as tough, but Big Steel's tight-lipped Ben Fairless showed no signs of yielding. Snapped he last week: "There is no sound or proper justification for . . . a wage increase at this time...
With no compelling reason to compromise and with production outrunning demand, the steel industry might prove as agreeable as the coal industry to a shutdown that would use up customers' stockpiles. Knowing this, steel union leaders were likely to walk cautiously, but CIO President Philip Murray showed no sign of backing down. This week, after getting both sides into a huddle Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching told President Truman that they were hopelessly deadlocked. Murray said this could mean only one thing, strike. Apparently, he was putting his chips on the hope of last-minute intervention...
...will use much of the stone himself in a Philadelphia housing project that he is building as a sideline to his auto business. The rest, he figures, will find an easy market: the Italian stone is far less expensive than U.S. cinder block...