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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...
...line of car lights signaled the coming of the police. There were 40 cars in all, including 24 radio-equipped squad cars and a bus-sized Black Maria loaded with 40 policemen and supplies of tear gas, submachine guns, automatics and carbines...
...razzle-dazzle a TV screen can hold. With at least five costume changes in each show, he has bounced on as Superman, Li'l Abner, Santa Claus, an Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...
Strauss & Sparks. A debonair and handsome man, Arthur Fiedler is known around Boston as both a socialite (he married a onetime Beacon Hill debutante in 1942) and a "spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took...
Down & Up. In a big week, Packard Motor Car Co. cut prices 4½% to 8½% on six models and reported a net income of $3,911,033 for the first quarter of 1949, three times its net for the same quarter last year. The auto price cuts nipped from $26 to $194 off list prices. Furthermore, equipment formerly extra will be included in list prices, so Packard figured that the reductions will actually be from $103 to $246. Prices of a few models in Packard's super line were raised...