Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier in the week from California, the President had invoked Taft-Hartley in the East and Gulf Coasts dock strike that had idled some 70,000 workers. But to Dwight Eisenhower, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley in the steel strike was far more distressing, and he put his feelings into the announcement of his decision. Wrote the President: "I profoundly regret that the parties to the dispute have failed to resolve their differences through the preferred methods of free collective bargaining, even though every appropriate Government service was available to them in support of their efforts." The President pointed...
After the extension agreement had been signed in New York, Southern dock hands refused to go along because, they said, employers in South Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports had refused to make any future pay increases retroactive, as the Yankee shippers had agreed to do. From the Gulf, the strike spread swiftly north, and from the way the opposing sides talked, there seemed slight chance of quick settlement...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8--A week old strike of dock workers for the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts was ended tonight by a federal court Taft-Hartley mandate. Union leaders immediately ordered 85,000 longshoremen back to piers from Maine to Texas. Waterfront activity was expected to return to normal by today...
...book on home remedies is from Gray's Anatomy, and it won the choicest collection of British reviews achieved by any book in 1958. Said the Times Literary Supplement: "The book exercises a complete fascination." Said the Irish Times: "Quite possibly a masterpiece." Despite the sometimes awesome gulf that separates British and U.S. tastes, U.S. readers are likely to find themselves agreeing with these judgments of The Rack...
Meeting for the first time outside the Middle East, the ten-nation Arab League last week sought desperately to give the color of truth to diplomats' and demagogues' claims of 75 million Arabs standing as one, "from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf." Instead, the session at Morocco's Atlantic port of Casablanca served only to show how deeply divided the Arab world...