Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one morning last week, 20,000 Western Electric installation men tore up their picket signs and went back to work for an 11½? hourly raise. The six-week-old telephone strike, dead in spirit since the operators capitulated three weeks ago, was also dead in fact...
Wages were not an issue this time. With both congressional labor bills dead-aimed at their right to bargain under the Wagner act, they were scrambling against time for a contract which would give them a dues checkoff, a liberalized retirement plan, the right to speak for non-union foremen as well as F.A.A. members. Ford officials conceded that the strikers might be able to cripple production within a week...
...jammed into two crypts and the hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around to seek a favor. It asked the union to call off its pickets on Memorial Day, to permit services in honor of the war dead. It got no prompt answer, waited...
...helicopter can "throw" a rotor blade, with immediately disastrous results. (This may have been what happened at Seattle and Providence.) The small tail rotor can and sometimes does come off, or get damaged. Engine failure by itself is not too serious, since a helicopter with a dead rotor acts like an autogiro and windmills down to earth...
...their agitation, the guilty lovers decide it is the dead man's lawyer (Sidney Blackmer), and waste no time polishing him off too. Then up jumps a second taunting anonymous letter congratulating them on their second successful murder-"and all's to do again." The game of doping out this uncomfortable handwriting-on-the-wall goes on, for murderers and audience alike, to a pretty unexpected finale...