Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage increases of 18½? to 19½? an hour. Labor, all down the line, had accepted the President's figure. The battle was now joined between Government and industry on how high prices should go to compensate for the wage increases. Harry Truman had not long to wait to hear industry's side...
...Wait & Speculate. While the U.S. public waited for the final truth about the Yalta conference, it could speculate on the import of the Kurils deal. In the Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed...
...parties approved, with a wait-and-see attitude, the Government bill of rights, promising civil liberties, release of political prisoners, legal standing for all parties, and local self-government. They agreed that the future constitution ought to have a legislature and cabinet combining the U.S. and British systems. They took a stand in principle against party armies: the future Chinese Army, an amalgam of Government and Communist forces, should be placed under a non-political Ministry of Defense...
...Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content to live on $10,000 a year apiece left them by their father, nor wait till they inherited the bulk of the $25,000,000 Slick fortune...
...program opened with the dreamy old song, Won't You Wait Till the Cows Come Home, accented by the tinkle of a cowbell and the recorded moo of a Jersey heifer. It closed with a gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names...