Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the welcome news had swooped and skittered on the horizon like a distant barn swallow. This week, rumor became fact. Bethlehem Steel Co., the nation's second greatest steel producer, had come to terms with Philip Murray's striking C.I.O. United Steelworkers...
...nearly a week, meeting quietly in New York City, Murray and Bethlehem's tough and practical President Eugene Grace hammered out peace terms. The company, which for 26 years had provided employees with free pensions (now $50 a month at 65), would increase them to $100 a month and bear all the cost (an estimated 9? an hour, in contrast to the fact-finders' proposed 6?. Murray agreed in turn to have Bethlehem's 80,000 workers pay half the cost of a new 5?-an-hour insurance and hospitalization program...
...pattern which, with a few cents' variation here & there, would presumably fit the rest of the struck steel industry comfortably, and Phil Murray had timed it well. In Cleveland, where he had a lot at stake this week, Phil Mur ray and jovial, ruddy Joseph Larkin, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, walked smiling into a roomful of steelworker negotiators to break the news. Then, serenaded by workers' cheers and loud singing, they called a press conference to explain the settlement. President Murray was able to walk into the C.I.O.'s highly charged annual convention with a great...
With last week's victory over Navy restoring a bit of Crimson prestige, Coach Bruce Munro's team is by no means a hopeless underdog. Princeton's five-game shutout streak doesn't overly impress the Crimson, for last year Harvard had such a streak of its own and was upset by mediocre Navy...
Common's menus are on the same repetitious week to week cycle that Harvard menus are, but Princeton is feeding only 1650 freshmen and sophomores from its kitchen. This puts Commons cooking on a more homey basis than the Harvard central kitchen which serves to over 3,000 students...