Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the bargaining got underway, something turned up almost at once. Standard Steel Works, a subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, promptly agreed to the full 10?-an-hour pension and welfare package urged by the President as a sound basis for settling the contract dispute in the steel industry (TIME, Sept. 26). But other companies, as usual, would probably wait to see what U.S. Steel decided before they budged...
...almost forgotten how bad it is," said Constance Mellon. "Now I understand why a lot of people leave it and why a lot of people will never come back...
Civic enterprise was a desperate necessity and almost a religion. Mellon told his friends: "Don't let business interfere with your civic enterprise...
...developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
...come. Last week he and his wife boarded an Air France plane at Paris and were flown to Boston. As they set out for Denver by train, it was easy to see that time had taken its toll with the Darling of the Gods. He was stooped and almost blind. But he still knew how to handle inquisitive reporters-he chuckled amiably, posed for photographs and said nothing...