Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw 18,000 men out of work...
...Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed to a great hull which for two years has been all there was to show of the world's largest liner, No. 534, the 73,000-ton monster of the Cunard Line (TIME, Feb. 19, et ante...
...Beebe sends his best congratulations on "esprit de corps." And as for the NSL, try, try again. A weekly mass meeting would be welcomed by friend and foe of the Cause, alike. Hyde Park redivivus promises instruction and amusement for young and old. And let the watchword be Pax et Veritas. J. LeB. Boyle...
...rioting on Feb. 6 and of the Stavisky scandal. In the room generally reserved for the committee on the army and handsomely decorated with battle pictures, sat the 44 members of the Commission d'enquête sur les événements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France. He heard things last week to make them curl...
...Italy, 20 other European princes, and delegations led by Alfred Ildefonse Cardinal Schuster of Milan and Augusto Cardinal Hlond of Poland. Rain pelted down during the canonization but the sun appeared afterward as the Holy Father mounted the balcony facing St. Peter's square, gave his blessing urbi et orbi to Rome and the world...