Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, sleepy eyes twinkled. "Where workers are to be discharged, we oppose it and they back our struggle whatever their politics. There will be spontaneous wildcat strikes all over Japan all summer-locally led, of course. Workers will slow down. They will come late and go early. They will demand the exact letter of the law of the safety regulations. All these tactics can be very effective. We don't need big strikes or demonstrations if we have enough small ones...
...Harry Bridges' fast-talking Red-fringed lieutenants told the men to stick to their demand for a raise of 32 cents (to $1.72 an hour). The stevedores did as they were told. They overwhelmingly (1,467 to 149) rejected the offer and voted to stay on strike. Said I.L.W.U. strike strategist Henry Schmidt: "I've told the men they can look for rough times from now on." So could the rest of Hawaii's 540,000 residents...
...back up his demand for dissolution of the Du Pont empire, Tom Clark charged that the Du Pont company had enforced...
...began in 1924 because Marcus Loew's Eastern theaters needed more films. Neither Loew's own studio, Metro Pictures, nor his friend, Producer Louis B. Mayer, could keep up with the demand. The big chance came when another fledgling named Sam Goldwyn decided to unload his Culver City studio. Loew's Inc. put up $5,000,000 worth of stock for Goldwyn's lot and launched it, under Mayer's supervision, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Abandoned neutrality to join North Atlantic Treaty despite a Russian demand for a non-aggression pact...