Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson took exception to Murray's statement in Pittsburgh, where the big three C.I.O. unions are determining wage policy, in which Murray called for "peaceful settlement" of the new demands and said that "it is up to the industrialists"whether a new wave of strikes is to be avoided...
...Matter of Money. With a casual wave the judge indicated that Lewis too could make a statement-about his personal finances, with reference to the amount of his fine, which Sonnett had left up to the court. Lewis said he had a salary of $25,000, a life tenancy in a house in Springfield, IlL. and a house in Alexandria, Va. * but he remarked, acidly, that Sonnett had "lied" in telling the court that he was the sole judge of his expense accounts. (Sonnett said he was merely reading from the U.M.W. constitution...
...course of the anniversary celebrations, Moscow's short-wave radio gave the rest of the world a thought for the week. It triumphantly pointed out that the British had rejected Churchill, the French Laval and America the party of Roosevelt. In fact it added "there is hardly a bourgeois state where over these ten years a single leading party has remained in power. . . . The constitutions of these states demonstrated their impracticability. Only in the U.S.S.R. is the same one party, the Communist Party, still in power...
Long before the invasion of Germany, the Army had learned which German scientists were important, and where most might be found. With each wave of U.S. troops, and sometimes ahead of advance units, went skilled scientists-hunters. The Army told who some of these scientists were, and where they were working: Fort Bliss, Tex. and Dayton, Ohio...
...American Cop (MARCH OF TIME) tackles a serious and very present problem: the booming postwar U.S. crime wave. But with all its cops-&-robbers flavor of shrieking sirens, swinging nightsticks and hard-boiled violence, the film is as much fun as a fast whodunit...