Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised their wage level from an average hourly wage of 50? in 1933 to $1.47 an hour last summer. He never bothered much about other gains, such as safety devices and hospitalization, although he paid such things lip service. When the Government seized the mines last spring he wrung from it a 5?-per-ton royalty for a welfare fund. The major objective of Economic Royalist Lewis has always been higher wages. Although his new demands were not officially made public, they embraced a shortened week and a higher rate which would boost the hourly wage to about...
...Scrap of Paper." Pittsburgh's Democratic Mayor David Lawrence, a friend of labor, wrung his hands, took a plague-on-both-your-houses stand. He charged that the Duquesne company was "suffering from a hardening process that a monopoly always suffers," said the union was "ill-advised." Then he acted...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
...best comedy routine. The Senators almost died laughing. Would George give up his 22 directorships? "I'd hate to cut out all," grinned George, "because what if the Democrats lost in '48?" In a burst of jolly good fellowship they confirmed George for the job. Senator Barkley wrung his hand...
...measures for federal housing (up to $200,000,000 annually for slum clearance), for federal medical and dental aid (he is dead set against socialized medicine), for federal aid in education. They represent a conservative's compromises-the substitute measures which a nimble and hard-willed legislator has wrung out of his opponents. Educators and housing experts who thought they were going to deal with a reactionary fogy when he consulted them about his bills found themselves agreeing with him on most major points, marveling at his knowledge of the facts...