Word: carteret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discarded annually in the U.S., of which an estimated 700,000 tons might be collected, shipped and processed economically. Today, the toughest problem facing WPB planners is getting greater detinning plant capacity. Of the seven large plants now in operation, Metal & Thermit Corp. (East Chicago, Ind.; South San Francisco; Carteret, N.J.) and Vulcan Detinning Co. (Neville Island, Pa.; Sewaren, N.J.) do about 85% of the business. New plants are being built by the Defense Plant Corporation at Houston, Dallas, Kansas City...
...Carteret, N. J., members of C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, joined by non-union employes, walked out of the Foster Wheeler Corp. plant. Reason: they had been refused a 10% pay rise. Neil Brant, union organizer, was arrested for defiling the U. S. flag. He had pounded on the flag when it was draped over the chairman's table at a strike meeting. ¶ In Chicago, a strike at the International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls...
...Threat there are Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward (Warren William and Porter Hall), a pair of sleazy scoundrels characterized by such lines as: "If Muncie doesn't get back to Arizona with the cattle, we'll take over Phoebe's freighting business and land. (Pause.) If he does, there'll be an Indian attack just before he reaches Tucson-and we'll still own everything the lady...