Word: armoured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week everybody in the C.I.O.'s United Packinghouse Workers union knew that its two-month strike against the Big Four packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy and Wilson) was a lost cause. Almost everybody knew that the union's leaders were ready to admit defeat. From Chicago a call went out for local leaders to come and discuss surrender terms...
...including whole centuries of kitchen sinks. Looking at one another with some surprise are McCormick harvesters, Roman baths, barber chairs, egg beaters and tricycles. Victorian maidens swing gently in new-fangled hammocks-oblivious of a conveyor-beltful of hogs swinging equally gently toward Swift's and Armour's hams...
...that it could no longer pass along such boosts to price-conscious consumers. Result: the third-round drive has made little progress to date. For the C.I.O., the hard-boiled meat-packers union had carried the ball-and run into a stone wall. After seven weeks of striking against Armour, Wilson, Swift and others, meat production was back up to 80% of normal...
...from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
Married. Gwendoline de Rothschild, 21, brunette Barnard College student, younger daughter of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna, great-granddaughter of Banking Dynast Solomon de Rothschild; and H. Roland Hoguet, 27, socialite meat salesman (Armour) ; in Manhattan...