Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this means, most of the French union workers know. Last week, where secret strike votes were held, the rank & file voted against striking. In the northern coal fields, where 200,000 miners were out at the time of France's acutest need for coal, some thousands of men shouldered their way past Communist pickets and resumed their work...
...gadget is not so new as it sounds; the U.S. Patent Office has similar inventions on file, dating back to 1931. The big difference is that CBS plans to give I.A.M.S. a dress preview early next year, with a national hookup to follow as soon as possible...
Official union leaders at the meeting wanted the ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
Next day the meeting on the green took but a few minutes. The union had surrendered; the rank & file now had their representation. Then Murphy spoke: "They said I had no control over you. Well, we will throw that back at them. I say you are going back to the ship and you'll take her out this afternoon. Will you?" The response startled the birds in the trees overhead and several men raised clenched fists. "All right," said Murphy, "go back to the ship...
...Make it impossible for any person to file for a divorce until he or she had conferred with [a] county social hygiene director...