Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, however, eyes were on steel, always the pacemaker in industrial settlements. Despite the handicap of a two-year contract, a cut in steel prices, and a no-strike clause, the steelworkers' Phil Murray was still bargaining for all he was worth. Last week he announced that negotiations had taken a new tack. A program of insurance, hospitalization and retirement benefits was under discussion. It would cost the steel companies the equivalent of a 9.6?-an-hour pay increase...
...office at the usual 8:20 a.m., the President was given a fat manila folder full of birthday greetings from around the world, with a hefty sheaf from Kansas City and Missouri. On his desk was a white-iced angel-food cake. Among his birthday presents: 64 red roses, a new gold World War I service button, a fancy rifle, a miniature bronze horse from a nine-year-old in Douglas, Wyo. who shares his birthday...
Prospective students at the first regular Harvard Summer School in six years will go through the usual signing-in rigmarole today and tomorrow at Memorial Hall from 9 to 4 o'clock. All students registering now may assure themselves of a place in any desired course, although they will not be bound to take the classes indicated on their preliminary study cards...
...summer session will last from June 28 to August 21, and will offer courses in all the usual academic categories. Credit will be given by the College at the same rate as in the regular fall and spring terms, with the standard study program reduced from four to two half-courses...
Other Houses have attempted to establish their own annuals ever since the Deacons led the way, but a lack of subscribers has always led to a demise of these ventures. Latest attempt was at Lowell last fall, but the usual failure followed...