Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Irreparable Damage." The U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, fearing a wage freeze, promptly sided with the industry against "pinpoint" price fixing. If Valentine's order meant that cost-of-living boosts were also outlawed, then the auto industry's long-term contracts with the U.A.W. might be voided, he said, and "irreparable damage" done to the "morale of all American industrial workers." To all these questions and criticisms, Valentine's office replied with a vague statement that it was studying the situation...
...Warned that it would soon be forced to order a cut in the nonmilitary use of tin by "something less than 30%" and that it might ban copper and cobalt for nonessential products where other metals can be substituted...
Businessmen might be pessimistic about the future, but Wall Street took a cheerful view. Day after President Truman's mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore...
...into the red, Olive Anne mapped out the cost-trimming program that got it back in the black. Last week, with a backlog of more than $50 million and major subcontracts from Boeing, Consolidated and Lockheed, it looked as though Olive Anne's first year at the controls might well be a record-breaking one for Beech Aircraft...
Matter of Ideals. Lucien, like most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...