Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 safety glass. Motormakers declared they would not suffer unless the glass strike was a long one. Ford was prepared to make its own glass. General Motors was stocked with a month...
...employes of National Automotive Fibres, Inc. (floor mats, cushions, door panels for Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down by a strike for better working conditions by employe-members of C. I. O.'s United Rubber Workers. Still idle in Detroit at week's end were 5,000 parts-making employes of Kelsey-Hayes Wheel...
This speech, possibly heard by the kidnapped Dictator himself by radio, was followed by the arrival in Nanking of his most trusted adjutant with peremptory orders to Dr. Kung to halt his soldiers. Since Dr. Kung had just told everybody they would not be halted, this placed the Nanking Government in a dilemma calling for the talents of Brother T. V. Soong. Great Mr. Soong has been called "the Morgan of China," and it is stockbroker gossip in Shanghai that Brother Soong is not always on the best of terms with his little sister, Mme Chiang. The Soong family...
...Archbishop of Canterbury has his way, the stutter will be called a halt. Broadcast he: "When his people listen to the King they will note an occasional momentary hesitation in his speech. ... It need not cause any sort of embarrassment, for it causes none to him who speaks...
...attacks a big Goliath industry it takes a careful aim. Last week the United Automobile Workers of America, out to organize the motor industry, concentrated its attack on a plant making parts and accessories. Without carburetors, starters, brakes, the country's great assembly lines must come to a halt...