Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just where the strike stood, nobody quite knew. From his emergency headquarters in Detroit, burly, bent-nosed N.M.U. President Joe Curran predicted that the N.M.U. drive for a 40-hour-week, pay boosts and a Union hiring hall would paralyze lake shipping in 10 days. His early count of 105 ships and 4,000 men idle differed sharply, however, from a press survey (56 ships idle...
Whatever the count, it was evident at week's end that Curran & Co. could make a damaging cut in the vital flow of iron ore, coal and limestone to U.S. producers who must overstock before the Lakes freeze. The 70 ships manned by members of the A.F.L.'s Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This...
...Count Him Out? Even the hopeful Mr. Wyatt was distressed. Last week he did what he could to get the jerry out of the building program. With new powers wangled from the Civilian Production Administration, he took over control of all priorities on building materials declared surplus by the Government. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Public Housing Authority would get first preference on these materials, with private builders of veterans' housing next...
Many a builder also clamored for a new federal housing boss. Snorted one last week: "The problem has licked Mr. Wyatt's meager abilities, but no one seems willing to count...
...burst of compressed air down Perelman's gullet, the dentist chortled:"Well, friend, you may as well know the worst. These are the teeth of an 80-year-old man. . . . Who put those [inlays] in - a steamfitter? . . . Miss Smedley, how many times have I told you not to count the patient's money in front of him? Take the wallet outside and go through it there. . . . H'm'm'm, a cleft palate. . . . While we're at it, I think we'd better tear out those lowers with a jackhammer...