Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wage increase requested by the union appears modest indeed when the wage scales of other automotive and aircraft plants, are compared with the prevailing rates at Downey, Cal. In short, the C.I.O. strike is a justifiable attempt by the working man to better his living standard and share more equitably in the cutting of the defense melons...
...possible that his thoughts ran parallel to those which were voiced last week by the English magazine Aeroplane; "Americans have elected to keep [the war] at a distance by arming the one nation which seems to have a chance of holding it off. . . . They will have to take a share in securing delivery of the goods if they want their henchmen...
...scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British aircraft industry, started speculation as to whether the President would change his "rule-of-thumb" by which England was to get 50% of U. S. airplane production, and give her a larger share...
More than that, Miss Tennant invited good-natured, green-eyed Tomboy Alice to share her Los Angeles home, became her teacher, manager, mother, mouthpiece. Under her guidance, Alice Marble developed into the hardest-hitting woman player in the U. S. Just as Brother Dan had suggested, she went "round the world in style." She was presented to England's Queen Mary after winning the Wimbledon championship last year; she became a nationally famed designer of women's tennis togs, a football commentator, women's-club lecturer, a nightclub singer...
...popular 1929 tipster stock was International Rustless Iron, whose 5,000,000 shares bounced up and down like a rubber ball. The crash put a tarnish on International Rustless; in 1932 its stock kicked around at 15? a share. Among burnt stockholders were tall, rusty-haired Yale athlete Charles Shipman Payson. socialite and horse-lover, and sturdy, up-from-the ranks Clarence Ewing Tuttle, a banker engineer from Hastings, Minn...