Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Have Nots. There were other vicious cycles. For want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of...
¶ In the nation's ports, the strike of A.F.L. Masters, Mates and Pilots and C.I.O. Marine Engineers left most of the nation's ships just as dead in the water as they were five weeks ago when lower-crust seamen struck. Wages were not an issue; shipowners...
Though other industries, notably Mexico's largest iron-&-steel works, have since risen in Monterrey, the brewery has remained the key to everything. It brought in other industries - glass factories to make bottles, metal works for bottle caps, paper plants for labels and cartons. The Sadas, Muguerzas and Garzas...
Fifteen years ago Novelist Aldous Huxley regaled British and American wits with a prophetic novel entitled Brave New World. In this caustic, chilly fantasy of a world-to-come (A.D. 2,500), babies were born in class-distinctive bottles, travel was in state-controlled helicopters, scientific absolutism was the universal...
Other strikes had throttled other supply arteries. There was little salt, window glass, and no milk bottles. The output of soap, rayon, pulp and chemicals was down to a trickle. Without counting steel, the loss to production was staggering. In the first seven months of 1946, strikes cost Canada 2...