Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intention of working for a bonus-less scale that began at 34⅜? an hour. So he and N.M.U. last month proposed a new wage scale-starting at WLB's 55? floor -to the 39 lines which are the shipping administration's agents on the East and Gulf Coast. The employers said no and both sides turned...
Elsewhere in the nation the labor situation was relatively calm, but uneasy. Strikes involving 6,000 men at Toledo's Spicer Manufacturing Corp., 8,000 at Mobile's Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., 7,900 at Mack Manufacturing Corp. plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, threatened no immediate hardship to the armed forces. Detroit was quiet...
...What did we lose, comrades? Is it necessary to remind me of the gulf between us and the capitalist world? On the other hand, there was Lend-Lease and there was a second front. It is not certain that we would have survived otherwise...
Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...
...months later the ist was ferried onto an enemy shore again-this time on Lingayen Gulf, where three years before the Japs had landed. The 1st's spectacular dash to Manila was only its first job on Luzon. It is still there, routing out Japs...