Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week invoked the national-emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike in the interests of the "national health and safety." In three fast-moving days the President 1) ordered a specially convened board of inquiry to look into the facts behind the East and Gulf Coast strike (TIME, Nov. 26) by the I.L.A. against the New York Shipping Association; 2) asked for and got a Federal Court injunction ordering the 60,000 strikers back to their piers from Maine to Texas for a ten-day period; and 3) indicated that if necessary he would...
...Most recent theory is that in their Exodus the Israelites did not follow the southern route traced by tradition, but the sandy northern road along the Mediterranean coast (see map). In that case, Mount Sinai should be that unimpressive mound known as Jebel Hillel, 30 miles south of El Arish, and rising a mere 2,000 ft. from the alluvial plain...
...Pioneers! In Tokyo, a few hours after 77 Japanese antarctic explorers steamed Poleward, each loaded with 700 pieces of equipment, the Maritime Safety Board got a hurry-up call, rushed the Coast Guard out to sea with each man's missing gear: coat hangers...
...strike call, and by week's end they had been joined by 35,000 other I.L.A. members from Portland. Me. to Brownsville, Texas. For the first time in the I.L.A.'s checkered history it had effectively paralyzed every major port along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (and there was the possibility that the strike might spread to the West Coast, where members of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union tied up a dozen ships as a gesture of "sympathy...
...knowing, realistic book about the early traders, trappers and scouts that was as unashamedly rich in poetic evocation as it was in gritty plain talk. In 1949 came The Way West, a sober but richly authentic account of the great migration by wagon to the Pacific coast. Guthrie's new book, These Thousand Hills, again justifies the literary claim he has staked out in that vast country, but it also shows that when a novelist sets a Western hero on a horse, he is apt. sooner or later, to follow a trail that leads to horse opera...