Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gave 110,000 production workers 8? more an hour (13? more an hour for 16,000 skilled workers). It also promised another 4?-an-hour boost for the final four years of the five-year contract, and tied wages to the cost of living with an escalator clause. Pensions were increased from $100 to $125 monthly (including Social Security...
From now on, the committee would make itself the final arbiter in disputed cases. To get right, anyone accused by the committee would have to prove his innocence or his reformation to the satisfaction of the self-appointed committee, or suffer the consequences...
Wreckage & Reconstruction. At war's end Formosa was placed under Chinese control with the understanding that China would get final possession of the island when the war with Japan was officially ended. (No peace treaty with Japan has been signed.) Formosans, stumbling about in the wreckage of their economy, found themselves in the hands of a despotic and inefficient Chinese governor, Chen Yi. After he had provoked a brief, bloody rebellion Chen Yi was removed. As the faltering Nationalist government fled from South China, Formosa became the refuge of nearly 2,000,000 mainland Chinese. Formosans complained bitterly that...
...Final Word. When Jebb called for a vote, everyone but Malik favored a seat for Chang. Then, Jebb gave Chang the floor and the final word of the week...
...more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also heard tonal colors never produced by four stringed instruments before. In the Fifth (1934) and Sixth (1939), Bartok reaped his harvest. Like Beethoven's last (Op. 155), Bartok's final quartet, composed six years before he died, is full of deep and timeless beauty...