Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...affecting national defense and has settled 186 of them with scarcely any work stoppage. In the case of the Vultee Aircraft strike he had no warning that a walkout was imminent. He dropped the hint that public opinion might be aroused if both parties to the wrangle did not make up. Both parties have plunged into conference. At week's end the only other important strikes unsettled were a two-week-old fight in the Northwest, where a dispute between A. F. of L. sawmill workers and mill owners tied up delivery of lumber needed for defense construction...
...Members of the House of Commons. You will be asked to make further financial provision for the conduct...
...could get set for a new offensive. Fascist reinforcements moving up to Pogradec met their pell-melling comrades on the road out of there, turned and fled with them as Pogradec fell. The same thing happened at Moskopole and it looked as though the first stand General Soddu could make would be on a line from Elbasan on the Shkumin River, which cuts Albania in two roughly equal parts, down the Devoll River to Valona. The way things were going last week, the southern part of Albania would soon be mostly Greek, which in fact it is culturally and racially...
...Theodore Leslie Shear is glad that Italy did not make war on Greece any sooner. Professor of classical archeology at Princeton, Dr. Shear was in charge of a grandiose excavation project which has gone on at Athens for ten years. When bombs fell on Peiraeus and elsewhere around Athens, Dr. Shear shut up shop abruptly. But his work was nearly complete anyway...
...this was buildup. The main attraction was stocky, bob-haired Carl Milles himself. He had come from Detroit to make a personal appearance at the biggest Carl Milles sculpture show ever held anywhere. Looking like one of his own rugged-faced Tritons, Swedish-born Sculptor Milles (amid cries of "louder") quietly addressed the crowd in his own Scandinavian brand of English, expressed pleasure at all the exhibitionism ("It is the first time an exhibit of my work shows all the steps what we have to do"), spoke feelingly of the problems of outdoor sculpture. Often, said he, when a sculptor...