Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave injustices done him since that day in 1931, when, as a generator wiper for metropolitan New York's United Electric Light & Power Co. (which later became part of the Consolidated Edison company), he was felled by a whiff of gas. The way he saw things, Con Edison's refusal to support his claim for compensation, and the "perjury" of fellow employees who abetted the company, had made him forever dependent on the sisters, who worked respectively in a button factory and a brass mill...
...first George had placed his bombs on Con Edison property, but too many of them went unfound and unexploded. So in recent months he took to driving into Manhattan in the sleek, $4,000 imported Daimler thoughtfully provided him by his sisters. He planted the bombs in such public places as Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building and New York Public Library, followed them up with carefully worded, literate letters to the newspapers, cryptically signed "F.P." (for "Fair Play," he explained). George had planted 47 bombs; scores of crackpots sent the cops on fruitless chases for imaginary missiles...
...Hearst New York Journal-American "Give yourself up," read an open letter to the Mad Bomber. "You will get a fair trial." George could not resist answering. The J-A continued to play him on the line; slowly George's cautious replies produced enough information to send Con Edison clerks scurrying through a mass of old "troublemaker" files. Sure enough, there was George's folder...
Last week George was getting more publicity than he had dared dream of in all the dedicated hours he had spent at his lathe. (The cops, for example, were accusing Con Edison of having held back its "trouble" file all these 16 years, and there was a squabble over the $26,000 reward.) Now, in the comfort of his hospital room, George was reading all about himself in the papers. He wasn't even unduly annoyed when the psychiatrists came in and interrupted his reading...
...Supreme Court settled the question of whether the Taft-Hartley Act bars all strikes for the duration of a contract. The court, in the unanimous opinion written by Justice Warren, held that unions can strike to back up demands made under reopener clauses in long-term con tracts even though the contract has not expired-provided that they give the 60-day notice required by Taft-Hartley...