Word: clink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clink! As the drivers stampeded from the gas-filled hall, cops laid about them with clubs and rifle butts. Two drivers were trampled to death, 23 others badly injured. While the wounded were piled into waiting ambulances, 366 drivers were carted off to join their brothers in jail. Cooler and clearer heads soon prevailed. Spokesmen for the strikers promised that they would go peacefully back to work; the arrested drivers were released on probation. At week's end, the cabs had reappeared, but the cabbies had as many grievances as ever. The row between...