Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight, in the middle of the annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
...life has been one long, happy holiday...
...hour for the 138,000 workers), or $750 million for the five-year pact that Bugas wanted It provided for direct raises of 5? to 10? hourly for some skilled workers, an increase in pensions from $161 to $188 (including social security) for 40-year employees, a seventh holiday, an increase in vacations, from two weeks to 2½ weeks for workers with ten years' service, broader insurance, and more medical and disability benefits...
...spoke from the well of the House, Pillion stood beside a huge bulletin board thumbtacked with clippings about Hawaii's Communists. Pointing at the clippings with an accusing finger, Pillion cried: "The last session of the Hawaiian legislature was a Communist holiday...
...into the stretch, where Margaret pushed her mount ahead to win by three lengths. Later, the two royal ladies still had horses on their minds. They turned up in West Norfolk to watch a horsy event, strolled to the stands with the care free air of schoolgirls on a holiday...