Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That way was not the traditional way of A.F.L., to which Dubinsky's I.L.G.W.U. belongs. Like A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers, its old-line craft unionists cling to the dying faith that wages and hours are labor's only proper concern. If Hutcheson's carpenters or Moreschi's hod carriers got their pork chops, the rest of the world could go hang. Dubinsky insists that pork chops are not enough. He believes that what affects working men anywhere affects working men everywhere...
...Boston mother expressed concern over her infant son's propensity for eating TIME'S covers and four-color ads. She wanted to know whether the red and other colored inks would harm him. Our production department advised her that red inks contain phlox-ine, which has lead in it-and lead will not do anybody's son any good...
Affable, 52-year-old Roy Hurley has been in & out of the airplane business ever since he got a job as engine inspector for the Army's air service during World War I. Later he formed his own sparkplug concern, then moved in as vice president in charge of manufacturing of the Bendix Aviation Corp., where he remained for 13 years before joining Ford...
Turning briefly from its concern with private lives, Szabad Nep discussed the matter of private deaths. It severely criticized the editors of Hungary's Statistical Year Book for printing a chart listing "Deaths by hanging, deaths by shooting, etc." Said Szabad Nep: the publication of such statistics is not "necessarily in the public interest...
...worry was deepseated. There was concern over America's own economy. There was a definite foreboding that the "minimum" arms program was a by-guess-and-by-God estimate wrapped in a dark warning and covered by a blank check. There was an uncomfortable suspicion that the U.S. was being suckered into a premature manning of battle stations, that U.S. weapons and money might be dissipated in driblets from Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that...