Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleaded for a Utopian ideal. "Capital," he said in 1926, "must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...
France consumes 7,000,000 tons of wheat each year, usually grows 6,700,000 tons of it herself. This year drought cut the French yield to 3,300,000 tons. Without dollars to buy wheat abroad, Frenchmen will have little bread, their basic food. The bread ration has already been cut to 200 grams a day (75 grams lower than the lowest ration during the German occupation). Probable November level: 150 grams (less than four average U.S. slices) daily...
...weeks ago there was a chance that Attlee might have to yield the leadership to a bigger Laborite. He and his Government had lost prestige at home and abroad. But now Attlee is over the worst of his qualms. He is banking on the Cripps production and export program, Dalton's emergency dollar measures, and the coming ministerial changes to restore British and world confidence...
...maintaining the peace. A sudden leap into Utopia is not to be expected. Even gradual change will not be effected without a good deal of inflammatory debate. But the gradual approach, however discouraging and unproductive it may appear at times, is the approach that in the long run will yield results. Prophets of doom who insist that the only salvation of the world lies in something so fanciful as immediate world government, are detracting from the potential strength of the drive for peace and security by diverting attention from more productive channels...
...Herman, 54, who started learning viticulture almost as soon as they could walk. Their wines (trade names: Wente Bros., Valle de Oro) are not widely known because the brothers sell chiefly to the carriage trade, do little advertising. Their prices are comparatively high because their fine-wine vines yield only 1½ tons of grapes to the acre, v. twelve tons for inferior varieties. For the same reason, their volume is small; last year, they made only 125,000 gallons (50,000 cases). They have only 700,000-gal. storage capacity, compared to 29.8 million for Roma Wine, 22.7 million...