Word: borrego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long string of weak, consistently unsuccessful farm unions, called a strike against several Delano grape growers, among them the giant companies Schenley and DiGiorgio. There was nothing new in that. Strikes had been called before in the Central Valley, several in the thirties, and more recently in Borrego Springs and nearby Bakersfield. But none of these previous strikes had been long-lived. Some had been violent, but all had ended with the farm worker in at least as bad shape as before...
...oldtimer bowed out. United Air Lines Chairman William A. ("Pat") Patterson, 66, went through a round of farewell luncheons and dinners, presided over a United stockholders' meeting for the last time, flew off aboard one of his jets to keep a golf date at his winter home in Borrego Springs, Calif. Patterson's retirement after 32 years as United's boss trims the ranks of early birdmen to two: American's Chairman C. R. Smith and Pan Am's Chairman Juan T. Trippe, both also...