Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barely got the words out of his mouth when some 25,000 United Mine Workers in Alabama and Indiana struck, reasoning traditionally: "No contract, no work." The nation, recalling last spring's three costly coal walkouts (a loss to war production of 20,000,000 tons of coal, 75-100,000 tons of steel), now turned a hard, accusing stare on John L. Lewis...
John L. Lewis stared blandly back. The walkouts were "unauthorized." He wired his Alabama and Indiana U.M.W. locals: "We all want to avoid any damage to the war effort. ... I hope each mine worker will again sacrifice his personal interests and subordinate his righteously outraged feelings...
Things you'd never forget department; Scrambled eggs, mackerel and 0000-0400 watches notwithstanding, Company C activity has a generous quota of bright and funny moments which most of us will never forget. For instance, the "Stephenfetchit" shuffle and Alabama brogue of Douglas Folsom who perpetually and loudly defends the deep south and his ability to receive flashing light.... Arthur Bornfriend in the Harvard Union billiard room, strongly insistent on a three-cushion game at the start and then finally consenting to straight-rail after making one billiard in 15 minutes. "You should do seen me when I was good...
ends: Don Hutson, Alabama 1935, and Brick Muller, California...
Delayed Take. In London, Private Ray Adler, who had once been in an auto accident in Alabama, received from the U.S. a copy of a medical discharge, discovered he had been officially out of the Army for more than a year and a half...