Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visible road block was the telephone strike. Even that strike seemed to be crumbling around the edges. A.T. & T. claimed it was handling four-fifths of the normal number of local calls, that long-distance service was up to 35%. Telephone workers were beginning to straggle back in many places: twelve in Kosciusko, Miss.; 1,500 Commercial Telephone Workers Union members in New Jersey, pending arbitration and a constitutional test of the state's drastic new anti-strike law (TIME, April 21); so many in the South that Southern Bell had removed emergency restrictions from long-distance calls...
...thaw. Lewis' miners, losing millions of dollars in wages and gaining not a thing, had been drifting back. Secretary of the Interior Julius ("Cap") Krug had thrown responsibility for mine safety right back at Lewis himself. Then Lewis' old nemesis, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, melted the last block...
...parade should come to a half at some spacious intersection, the music-makers plan to exhibit some of their flashy drillwork a la Soldiers Field, breaking from block formation to a semicircle and striking up a service medley...
...block west of Ebbets Field, at the Left Field Bar & Grill, a grim conversation was in progress. One voice said: "Dixie Walker ain't hittin', huh?" A dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain't lookin' over the rookies. Who's gonna be on first? Third base's wide open. Only three positions sewed down. The jerk! Gimme a libation, Eddie...
...House bill as approved by the Labor Committee would outlaw the closed shop but permit the union shop, prohibit certain industry-wide bargaining, provide for court injunctions to block serious strikes, abolish the National Labor Relations Board and the U. S. Conciliation Service and replace them with other bodies...