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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been as nice a part-time job as a man could imagine. The hours were easy and the pay was fat-$35,000 a year. But after word of the luscious salaries got out, Ezra Van Horn and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire found less enjoyment in their pay and duties as trustees of the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (TIME...
With an air of pained surprise, northern and western soft-coal operators fired crusty, aging Ezra Van Horn, an executive of the Ohio Coal Association, from his six-year-old job as the operators' chief labor negotiator. They also tied a new demand to the contract they are negotiating with John L. Lewis. If Van Horn was not relieved of his trustee's job, they would not sign a new contract with the union...
Besides, said Acheson, after he had gotten Harry Truman's backing for the project, the mill could not possibly be delivered before another year; by that time the U.S. would have a better idea just how lasting was Tito's falling out with the Kremlin. On that basis, Johnson reluctantly agreed...
...driven elephants. Beaming at their heels came Dave Dubinsky. The A.F.L., President William Green announced, would send five delegates to a London meeting in the fall to establish a new world federation of free labor. For Dubinsky and his friends, it was a full victory after a determined four-year fight...
...Apiece. By the end of June, the Government had in one year poured a whopping $64 million into the pockets of Aroostook potato men, to buy up the surplus from Maine's biggest cash crop. Some of the takes were eye-popping examples of the nation's weirdest experiment in farm pharmacy (total U.S. cost last year: $225 million). At least two Aroostook potato shippers collected Government checks for around $500,000; a dozen or so got more than $150,000 each; at least 31 over $100,000 apiece. In all Maine, 4,503 farmers averaged...