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Steady Rise. As might be expected, Bowen found that unions have their greatest impact on wages in boom times rather than in recessions. Nevertheless, in the 35 years of the relatively weak craft union, prior to the Wagner Act in 1935, constant-dollar wages showed a slightly larger percentage increase (from 53? to $1.13 an hour: 114%) than in the 25 years since ($1.13 to $2.20: 95%), when the powerful industrial union has come into its own. Since 1900 the output per man-hour in U.S. manufacturing has risen at an average annual rate of 2%-3% a year. Wage...
...delicacy of Webern's ponderings, they proceeded quietly and somberly in the second, fourth and fifth movements, but exploded with appropriate force in the first and third. The group handled the bowing and quavers assuredly and the harmonics in the first violin were steady and precise. Despite an occasionally weak viola, they displayed good tone and coordinated well the sparse harmonies and fragmented melodies...
...consistently weak foil team could only capture one of nine matches. Sophomore John Nelson accounted for the only win, as fencing captain Larry Johnson and converted sabremen Jai Yuh were shut out by City fencers...
Captain Larry Johnson heads a foil team composed of John Nelson and converted sabreman Jai Yuh. The already weak foil squad was crippled by academic difficulties at midyears, and Yuh was pressed into action with no previous experience in the weapon...
...James rivers. After the first Battle of Bull Run, in July 1861, British Artist Frank Vizetelly, sent over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...