Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freight business, the showdown had come. So far as the independent carriers could make out, the issue was plain: Would the scheduled airlines, which had been slow to wake up to air freight's possibilities, be permitted to drive the independents out of business? The scheduled lines' weapon was a rate war - the 12?-per-ton-mile tariff recently proposed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by American, United and Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying...
...other mere limitation of the veto is not sufficient and that other amendments are needed those that will give the UN powers of government. Vishinsky's reply is discouraging in that it indicates, perhaps, Russian reaction to a proposal for world government. But if we are to have a showdown, let the issue be squarely presented. Let us form a world government with Russia, if possible; without her, if necessary. Such a partial world government would be open at all times to any nation which wished to join it. Such a government would be one Russia could join, but could...
What most Frenchmen feared was that the day Premier Ramadier was turned out, the showdown between De Gaulle and Communism would begin. A former Resistance worker voiced the mood of many plain men last week: "Now we enjoy our food and our wine and the sunshine on the coast-as long as we have them to enjoy-and we can only hope that our children can learn enough to do better. We are finished...
...Pennsylvania's Edward Martin, whose Senate subcommittee had been investigating the steel shortage for four months, the stage was set for a showdown. From scores of small businessmen, the committee had gathered plenty of evidence to show that the supply and distribution of steel were far from what they should be (TIME, June 9). Last week, the committee called the heads of the biggest steel companies up on the carpet...
...would be late for Mass. But the Socialists wanted it turned toward the sea for the fishermen; the Communists wanted it turned toward the harbor for the dockhands: "Deckhands are poor-salaried workers, while fishermen are small proprietors who should buy their own watches." A showdown came again in the municipal committee room...