Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk sonorously to scribbling reporters. "We've engaged in another exercise of futility. Industry deliberately maneuvered and stalled and engaged in all kinds of fakery." Industry strategy, he charged, was to depend upon the Taft-Hartley law's 80-day injunction as "a bargaining tool" to drive strikers back into the mills...
Union Boss McDonald exploited the break by signing Kaiser-style contracts with Detroit Steel Corp. and Granite City Steel Co., small companies (less than 1% of U.S. capacity each) that have been operating throughout the strike on union-granted contract extensions. But McDonald's drive never got beyond the easy pickings of the minors, soon hit the stiffened wall of major company resistance. Top steel negotiators declared that the Kaiser contract 1) would cost non-Kaiser companies nearly half again as much, 2) provided contract reopening in 1961, which was "intolerable to all," and 3) left work rules...
When she has a formal date, the Sarah Lawrence girl will typically dress chicly and drive to New York with her escort to see a show, stop in somewhere afterward, and return in plenty of time for her 2 a.m. curfew (Weekday curfews are 1:30). There is also a great exodus to Princeton, Yale, or home on weekends, leaving the campus quiet and lonely...
...received gifts from two early Eisenhower supporters from Montana and New York, and intends to increase its drive for contributions...
After kicking off, the Yardlings forced the Bruins back 32 yards in three plays, and Brown had to punt. Armstrong ran the ball back to the home team's 35-yard line and set up another Yardling touchdown. Three plays later, Fred Taylor scored on a three-yard drive. After Barth failed to convert, the score stood...