Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince stood by -at a reported cost to the studio of $20,000 a day. Finally, with Lanza apparently still not feeling up to his work and still making no reasonable explanation, M-G-M announced that it had canceled production of the Prince, and would sue Lanza for breach of contract and over $700,000 in costs...
...Chinese popped out of the trench, killed four marines in their holes with grenades, broke through the line to Captain Connolly's CP, where the shrapnel-torn flag of St. Michael was still flying. Connolly radioed his men to move in from each side to seal the breach, then helped to pick off the attackers himself. Shortly he was radioing back to battalion: "Lines breached, now consolidated...
Into the Black. Still, Boeing's troubles were not over. In 1948 its 15,000 machinists went on strike for the union shop and rigid seniority provisions. Bill Allen, who feared that the demands would eliminate the flexibility he thought management needed, sued the union for breach of contract-and won. After 144 long days the men returned, minus the union shop and the seniority clause they had demanded...
...first time a Canadian arbitration board had been asked to assess company-claimed damages for breach of a collective agreement. As its defense, the union claimed that the stoppage was spontaneous and that it had ordered the men back. But, the board found, "it is not enough for the union to go through the motions of giving back-to-work orders . . . There must be prompt attempts to get the employees back to work ... It may be necessary . . . even to take disciplinary measures against particular members of the union." Said Bora Laskin, law professor at the University of Toronto who acted...
...with a slim majority of 21,000. Fine's own Luzerne County gave him a majority of 26,500. In a way, this meant that Fine had elected Pinchot virtually singlehanded. Says Fine: "If Pinchot had won by 50,000, Brown and I could have healed the breach. As it was, we never could. I did not sleep for two nights after the returns were...