Word: chink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chink & Plug. Fortnight ago, WMC asked Puget Sound shipbuilders (suspected by WMC of hoarding labor) to lay off some 14,000 workers to give Boeing a pool from which to draw the 9,000 it estimates it needs. Speedily the shipbuilders agreed. (WMC warned them that they would get no more contracts, might even have some of the present ones canceled, if they...
...plan seemed to have a chink as wide as a Flying Fortress. What was to prevent laid-off workers from getting jobs in other shipyards outside the Puget Sound area (such as Henry Kaiser's yard at Vancouver, Wash.)? Also, many smaller plants in the area are understaffed, pay more under the WLB freeze than Boeing...
Last week, WMC neatly plugged the chink. It warned that if Boeing does not get enough workers, contracts in the area will be canceled until it does. One small Seattle company, Pacific Huts, is so afraid of this very thing happening that it is taking full-page ads in Seattle newspapers urging workers to take jobs with Boeing...
Leaks and Arms. Other recent Japanese campaigns in China have had similar objectives. The occupation of Kwangchowan, a French-leased area, gave the Japanese a chance to build airfields to offset U.S.-operated fields in South China, but its main point was to calk the greatest chink in the South China blockade. In Shantung Province, one of the areas occupied by the invader in the first year of the war, the Japanese have in the past two months car ried on a campaign against Chinese guer rilla forces who had assisted in smuggling. Operations against the Chinese border from Burma...
...expected, Dartmouth monopolized the selections. Captain Stan Skaug, smooth-working, often unnoticed Indian guard, received the only unanimous vote. Teammate Bob Myers, who scored 21 points against the Crimson for the Big Green at the Indoor Athletic Building, was named to one forward berth, with Penn's eagle-eyed Chink Crossin at the other...