Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exulted New York Unionist Peter J. McGuire, who originated the idea of Labor Day in 1894 on the joyous occasion of the first U.S. legal holiday honoring the workingman. During the next six decades, U.S. labor grew mighty beyond Carpenter McGuire's wildest dreams. But this week there is little reason to shout hosannas. Instead, at the time of Labor Day, 1957, organized labor is disturbed by its recent past, perplexed by its present, taking anxious stock of its future...
...Turkey gathered another apprehensive group, including those Arabs who have freely proclaimed their association with the West. King Hussein of Jordan flew in for what was billed as a ''holiday'' in Istanbul; his Hashemite cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, was already in Turkey on his royal yacht, and taking water-skiing lessons. Both cousins broke off their holidays for consultations with Premier Adnan Menderes...
While much of the rest of the world was on August vacation, death took no holiday in Algeria. In one four-day period last week, the French army killed 718 Algerian rebels, and the rebels killed 76 Frenchmen and 59 Moslems, bringing Algeria's death totals in the past three years...
Express train D-961 slid out of Salzburg at 9:53 p.m. bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing...
Innocent Middleman. In Copenhagen, Ole Jensen, arrested for counterfeiting Danish employee holiday stamps-so expertly that he was able to turn them in at post office windows, a book at a time, and collect $64 in refunds-conceded that he knew it was illegal but did not think it really wrong since the post office could reissue the books and recover its money...