Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike at Philadelphia's two-block-long General Electric Co. plant had been conducted much like the strikes at G.E. plants in Oakland, Calif.; Pittsfield, Mass.; Bridgeport, Conn. There had been quiet, orderly picketing. In Philadelphia there had not been a single arrest. G.E.'s 5,000 Philadelphia strikers knew as well as their leaders that the strike was not going to be settled there but in New York City, at United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers Union headquarters...
...Rejected Albania's appeal for immediate admission; C]J Witnessed Russia's first use of the veto power to block a U.S. plan for withdrawing French and British troops from Syria and Lebanon...
Furthermore, the new company would be bound to hire Andy Higgins for the next five years at a salary of $80,000 a year. His two sons would be given jobs also, at $20,000 a year apiece. And through a block of 300,000 shares of stock which Higgins Industries would also receive, Andy Higgins would hold the largest single block of stock, probably enough for working control of the new company. Looking at all this, many a businessman wondered if he too should not "go out of business...
...childhood sweethearts, Olive Ewing and Raymond Clapper lived a block apart in Kansas City's (Kan.) packinghouse district. The grocer's daughter and the laborer's son went to the same Sunday school, the same high school. One day when Olive had just turned 17, they kept a date on a streetcar. She told him her father's ultimatum: stop seeing-that Clapper boy, or you'll be sent away to stay with relatives. Said Ray: "Let's get married...
...United Auto Workers were brought together again by labor conciliator James F. Dewey, an old hand at composing Detroit strikes, but the question of wages was still a stumbling block. Day after day the headlines radiated optimism, but there were few facts on which to base...