Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...levels for Canadian educators, added Educator Brebner, are "stupid"-most Canadian scholars and teachers are paid so little "that a very large proportion of their potential usefulness is continuously being poured down the sewer of . . . drudgery and hackwork for other income." Thus they yield quickly when American universities and laboratories beckon. "One can predict the uproar in the press and parliaments of Canada if the United States tried to buy a single Canadian island. . . . But the never-ending loss of scholars passes without comment...
...yield to such a demand would mean the end of free enterprise. . . . General Motors does not propose voluntarily to blaze a trail in this direction. If our system ... is to be abandoned, it must be by act of Congress...
...nation whose most potent military asset was its soldiers' readiness to die rather than yield had actually developed a defense, however fantastic and uncertain, against the U.S. amphibious attack...
Thus at a time when management seemed determined to yield mighty few inches in any industry, Amalgamated had got its usual ell. For his 150,000 overcoat and suitmen, President Hillman reported a 20% to 31% pay raise amounting to $60 million (with no hike in clothing prices); and including six paid holidays and continuation of insurance benefits at the employer's expense. For his 45,000 shirtmakers, he announced a 20% raise with like trimmings...
...crisis, the U.S. had hoped, as usual, that someone would give in. The C.I.O. steel workers, stubbornly demanding a $2 a day raise, would not. Big Steel's Ben Fairless said flatly: there can be no bargaining until OPA boosts steel prices. Last week, OPA also refused to yield. Said OPA Boss Chester Bowles: there is no need for an increase in steel prices at this time...