Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...chief organizer was slick, veteran Wyndham Mortimer, of United Automobile Workers. Just before a settlement was reached R. J. Thomas, president of the auto workers, carried to the strikers some strong words of advice from Murray and the Defense Commission's Sidney Hillman. The final terms raised the basic pay of workers from 50? to 62? an hour, provided for 16 months of operation at Vultee without strikes on the part of workers, or lockouts on the part of management. Employes lost twelve days' work, $203,240 in wages, gained an annual boost...
...seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
Both nominees agree on the basic policies of the H.S.U., leaving the election a question of individuals and their abilities instead of issues as has usually been the case...
...gives the soloists more opportunity to get off. Tunes are Royal Garden Blues and Wholly Cats. Cootie Williams' muted growl horn stars on Royal Garden, but the outstanding thing about the record is the rhythm section, which is second only to the Count's. As a matter of fact, Basic plays piano here, and shares honors with Artic Bernstein (bass), Charley Christians (electric guitar) and Harry Jaeger (drums). Wholly Cats features the surprise of the year: Georgie Auld off tenor sax. Georgie used to be to the sax what Buddy Rich is to drums. Now he's playing swell horn...
Movies of the Yale game are to be presented by Coach Harlow at 11 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration and he will explain the basic principles of team play to the graduates...