Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this area, accident and sickness benefits will be increased (to a maximum of $45.50 a week), the union and company will split the cost of medical and hospitalization insurance. G.M. agreed to a modified union shop: G.M. workers now in the union must stay there for the duration of the contract; new employees would have to join for at least one year...
...jobs-one playing the bass viol with the orchestra, one teaching music, one on a Ford assembly line, and one as registrar with Detroit Business University. The strain of such a working schedule soon began to tell. In 1942 Braunsdorf fell ill, put all his earnings in a florist shop to recoup his finances, but eventually had to sell it at a loss. Finally, he resigned himself to leaving Virginia at a private sanitarium...
...week from William J. Keswick, chairman of London's China Association: "The British stake in Shanghai is withering." Unless Communist China changes its tactics, said Keswick mournfully, "then clearly, whether we like it or not, the only policy open to us is to close down and shut up shop...
...Council set up shop in the H.A.A.'s basement ticket office and waited for applications to pour in. Two frantic days later exactly 20 students had applied for parking privileges and the Soldiers Field lot died a charitable death over Christmas vacation...
Without the grant, the Seminar would have had either to shut up shop this summer or to curtail its program very considerably...