Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis was back in character...
Shut down for 45 days, the Missouri Pacific Railroad rumbled back into operation this week after a costly strike by its 5,000 engineers, conductors, enginemen, trainmen and firemen. The nation's ninth largest railroad lost an estimated $24 million in revenues; its strikers lost some $2,250,000 in wages. Another 20,000 MoPac employees had been forced out of work, losing about...
Porterfield talked fast. After 20 minutes of heavy breathing the cops relented, decided not to throw him in jail for trespassing. The warriors returned to the armory and turned in their weapons. Back at Peoples Drug next day, the food department's most highly publicized member groaned: "Oh, Lord, it was just a routine problem. We didn't mean anything bad by it, honest...
...workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
...never going to start the war," he said. Therefore the strategy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was premised on the assumption that the U.S. would be attacked. "We will have to carry the war back to the enemy by all means at our disposal. I am convinced that this will include strategic air bombardment and large-scale land operations." There would be little need for Pacific island-hopping after the early phases, he thought, or any need for such amphibious operations as the Normandy invasion...