Word: delayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even more than in the steel strike, the public has great concern with the length of the probable strike. At present, there seems to be no way by which to avoid it completely. Under terms of the Railway Labor Act, the government can delay the start of the strike a fair length of time; the President can invoke measures leading to an emergency negotiation board and can exert subtle pressures in other ways. The Taft-Hartley Act provides the final governmental check...
...Hartley injunction ordering 500,000 steelworkers back to the ore mines, furnaces and mills for 80 days. The court's 8-to-1 decision (Justice William O. Douglas dissenting) cut tersely through the United Steelworkers' lengthy legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh Oct. 21 and affirmed six days later by the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court ruled solidly on the three main points raised by the union in its appeal...
...travels, Secretary of State Christian Herter will wrap up U.S. position-papers in advance of the Western summit, but will join the presidential party aboard the cruiser. As his top diplomatic adviser Ike will take to Asia the State Department's retiring Troubleshooter Bob Murphy, who will delay his retirement (and starting his new jobs as a director of Corning Glass Works and president of Corning Glass Works International) to make the trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John, and act as hostess...
...underground shot in October 1958, has discovered that underground explosions below 20 kilotons (about Hiroshima size) cannot accurately be detected by known seismographic instruments (TIME, Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the U.S. has had to hold up development of "clean" (low-fallout) bombs and smaller thermonuclear weapons. Sample result: a delay in the smaller warhead for the second-generation Minuteman intercontinental missile...
...series of three rendezvous with Pesquet. The only hitch, according to Pesquet, had come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into the gardens; Pesquet and his driver had been obliged to hold their fire until a cruising taxicab and a pair of lovers got out of the way. The delay, Pesquet recalled, had prompted Mitterrand to call out impatiently from his geranium bed: "All right, get going...