Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most serious threat to the motor industry came last week as the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, demanding more pay, closed shop and check-off of union dues, added 5,600 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in Toledo, Shreveport and Charleston, W. Va., to the 1,300 already striking in Libbey's Ottawa, Ill. plant and 6,000 in five plants of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. U. S. manufacture of plate glass was thus brought virtually to a halt. Between.them, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh make 90% of the nation's plate glass, 85% of its automobile...
...biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, before the National-Labor Relations Board on charges of interfering with its employes' right to organize. Most important, C. I. O. was preparing a frontal attack on the automobile industry, whose parts-making supply bases the United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers continued last week to harry (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante}. To great General Motors Corp., world's biggest automobile manufacturers' Leader Lewis delivered an "ultimatum" demanding U. A. W. recognition and collective bargaining, on threat of strike...
Next morning Londoners queued up early to gaze at waxed Mrs. Simpson who was placed in the niche occupied previously by George V. Her brilliantly blue glass eyes were fixed on the waxwork of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and at some distance the figure of King Edward VIII also faced Canterbury...
...obstruction to such contact, the Prime Minister cried: "Uninformed criticism on both sides is useless and might, in fact, do each country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words: "Whatever else comes from Kentucky, Kentucky ham is the best in the world...
Although the meter contains a new type of photoelectric cell, of pure magnesium enclosed in corex glass, ultraviolet recorder: themselves are not especially new. But Professors Huxford & Cashman have started right out to get geographic comparisons. They find, for example, that Iowa and Nebraska are richer in sunburning sunlight than the Chicago region, that the uplands of South Dakota are richer still. They indicate their willingness to put their heads in a lion's mouth of uproarious dispute by comparing the healthfulness of Florida's sunshine with California...