Word: fights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great strike between the forces of management and labor of the steel industry is more than a present threat to the welfare of the U.S. It is a vivid symbol of what America has come to treasure most and fight for the hardest: material security and monetary wealth...
...trial had barely begun when Carbo startled the courtroom by throwing in the towel. He admitted that he was the undercover manager for Welterweight Pug Jim Peters in one fight, and that he had been the real power behind the stable ostensibly managed by Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman (Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Featherweight Ike Chestnut). More damning yet was Carbo's admission that he had been the behind-the-scenes matchmaker for the welterweight title elimination fight in March 1958 between Virgil Akins and Isaac Logart...
...want in the next railroad agreement to replace the one that expired last week. Preliminary wage sparring has already gone on. The unions pressed for a 36?-an-hour boost, and the industry has counterproposed a 15? wage slash. Despite the wide gulf in wage proposals, however, the big fight will still be over union featherbedding. To eliminate featherbedding, the rail companies asked the rail unions to: ¶ Extend the basic day's mileage pay from 100 miles to 160 miles. The 100-mile rate was established in 1919, when freight trains averaged 12½ m.p.h., passenger trains...
...whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax is chosen by lot, he and Hector spar for a minute and then agree it is really too dark to fight...
Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). With Staccato (John Cassavetes) calling the shots, this musical Eye is tough enough this time to fight his way out of a dangerous doublecross...