Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gargantuan a wartime phenomenon as the West Coast shipyards is their union: the alphabetically unpronounceable International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, Welders & Helpers of America. Almost overnight World War II has made it one of the largest, probably the richest, certainly the most glamorous union en the war-busy West Coast...
Meanwhile the streets around the factory were quickly transformed. Everything that the Russians could lay hands on was used-boiler plates, shells of tanks, barrels, bricks, sandbags. Wives brought bullets to husbands while girls from workshops served as nurses. Many perished that day, but for that price the river line was held until regular reinforcements could be brought...
...Francisco's little corps of women welders, fresh out of trade school and champing for work, put unchivalrous Local 6 of the Boiler Makers, Iron Shipbuilders & Helpers Union (A.F. of L.) on the spot...
...bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...
...Stocky, chubby-faced Communist General Secretary Harry Pollitt, one-time cotton-miller and boiler maker, laid down the Party line. Said he: "Open the Second Front. Increase production. Strengthen the Anglo-Soviet alliance. . . . The trade union official who said 'Let the strike continue was not helping the workers. Strikes in this situation are ... helping the Fascists to build the gallows and dig the sandpits in which they execute the cream of the working class whenever they conquer a country...