Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey fans, the visiting players from abroad seemed a breed apart. They seldom body-checked, showed no signs of pique when an American opponent lowered a shoulder and sent them sprawling. They tried few power plays, relied instead on dazzling skating and passing so precise that their offense looked like a giant-sized game of animated chess. Instead of whooping with triumph after a goal, they skated deadpan back up ice. But the touring Russian all-stars had one familiar sporting trait: they played...
...Russians, the eight-game series against American amateur and college teams was an excellent warmup for the world amateur championships in Prague in March. Their first three games were scheduled against the American Nationals, a hand-picked team of former collegians who will also play in Prague. Since learning the sport in 1946 from books and newsreels of Canadian pro games, the Russians have improved so rapidly that they won the world championship tournament in 1954, finished second every year since and skated off with the 1956 Olympic title...
After a 22-day strike, the 1,500 American Airlines pilots won a fat 18-month contract this week. Their settlement ended the worst series of labor dogfights in U.S. airline history. American contracted to put a third junior pilot in jet cockpits, pay him at least $650 a month. The pilots also won pay boosts from a top of $19,220 a year to $22,596 for flying piston-engine DC-78. They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when...
...pilots did not win their demand to cut the maximum work month to 75 flying hours (it remains 85 hours). But American did agree to give them some flight credit for time away from home and at the airport but not actually in the air. For example, if a pilot is on duty for ten hours but socked in by weather, he will be credited with five hours' flight time...
...American pilots' victory, which will set the pace for the whole industry, was wrought at great cost to others. Some 20,000 other American employees were put out of work for a week by the 22-day strike. American and its suppliers lost an estimated $33 million...