Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy V-12s including seamen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen...
...Sloan, made an address to the Detroit Economic Club. Before he stopped talking, Alfred Sloan had ranged over the whole spectrum of postwar problems facing U.S. industry. His pro-competition, pro-full employment, pro-internationalism views are by now standard for all but the most die-hard Old Guardsmen. But almost buried in his long speech was a concrete new thought about how private industry might re-examine its own fiscal policies...
...Labor Board. It acted to eliminate two of the chief reasons for the production slump: 1) the squabble between management and U.A.W.-C.I.O over a new contract; 2) the jurisdictional tussle between the union and the Navy over plant guards who are both union members and Coast Guardsmen. WLB ordered a contract signed on points already agreed upon and removed the guards, whose status caused the August strike, from union jurisdiction. Faintly encouraged, the corporation issued a meek statement hoping that "After a reasonable amount of patience . . . production will meet expectations...
...hopeful girls, 33 in all, were held practically incommunicado. (City fathers were sure that the 10,000 soldiers, sailors, Coast Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
...came again. The deck plates rattled as a pattern of depth charges thundered in the Spencer's wake. But the tension was less than during the attack in darkness. Daylight seldom yields much in the battle against submarines. In their sea-stained zipper jackets and dungarees, Coast Guardsmen joked and talked about their next shore leave...