Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the nation's newspapers were filled with big, black headlines telling of labor's new wants for 1949. From the sidewalks of New York to the docks of Honolulu, the powerful C.I.O. and its 6,000,000 members were on the march. How far could they march, how much would they demand, in the midst of what Harry Truman called "a declining national economy...
When the news of Big Steel's surrender reached the United Auto Workers convention in Milwaukee, a listless show stirred to life. Walter Reuther perked up perceptibly. The U.A.W.'s scrappy president is not a man who likes to let George do it-or even Philip Murray. A steel strike sooner or later might have shut down the auto industry; now the auto workers were just where they wanted to be, carrying the C.I.O. ball for a fourth-round increase in U.S. industry. It was a nice forward pass (completed): Murray to Truman to Reuther...
...exactly 2:02 o'clock one afternoon last week-less than ten hours before the deadline-word reached the steelworkers' Pittsburgh headquarters: Big Steel had capitulated. The creeping threat of a shutdown in the nation's most basic industry was suddenly lifted. His face lined with the strain of waiting, 63-year-old President Phil Murray called in the newsmen: "We are delighted to be able to say that the strike has been averted...
Died. George Harrison Houston, 66, big-time industrialist (president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. 1919-22, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works 1929-38); in an automobile accident; in Mexico...
American with big feet and a hole in his sock squatting on the floor and putting boyish questions to the tiny, tired Mahatma...