Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Root of the confusion was a labor-management dispute involving only 8,000 men-members of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers, who install switchboard equipment for the Bell System. They wanted a long-sought raise of $6 a week, plus a promise to negotiate a postwar increase. When their demands were turned down, they walked out, threw a picket line around any telephone exchange they found handy. Most of the 25,000 long-lines operators and some local operators refused to cross the line...
This week the National Federation of Telephone Workers, whose 263,000 members include more than half of all Bell employes, decided to stop just sympathizing and call its own strike. But it put the deadline 30 days away. For the time being, most telephones were back in order...
Last week, NBC's Contented Hour, one of radio's oldest and best-known, began its 15th year. But it was almost a new show. Gone were the moo and the bell, the bleating ballad. Only familiar prop was Canadian-born, 36-year-old Conductor Percy Faith. Regarded as one of radio's top arrangers, he is equally deft with light classics and new jazz. His formula for a new contentment: more Kostelanetz-like arrangements of Gershwin and Rodgers, fewer old soothers like Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...
...candidate like Spaatz. It was almost certain that popular Republican Governor Edward Martin would challenge blustering Democratic Boss Joe Guffey for his 11-year-old seat in the U.S. Senate. This would leave either Chief Justice George W. Maxey of the State Supreme Court, or Lieut. Governor John C. Bell Jr., scion of a Philadelphia Main Line family, free to run for governor. Even though President Franklin Roosevelt carried Pennsylvania by 105,000 votes in the 1944 election, a Martin-Maxey or Martin-Bell ticket would be hard to beat...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...