Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Mexican telephone companies recently upped monthly rates four pesos (80?), 1,000 subscribers in provincial Querétaro got so mad they lifted their receivers right off the hook-and left them off. Not till the rates came down again, said they, would they put back their receivers or pay their bills. Last week, local managers tore their hair trying to figure how to beat the strike...
...carry to the waterfront streets of San Francisco? There 1,700 machinists, denounced by Government and labor officials, were still on strike. Three weeks' work on almost half a billion dollars worth of naval vessels had already been lost. A Senate committee summoned hard-eyed Harry Hook, strike leader, to explain why. Senator Truman demanded to know whether he had heard the President's address. Said Hook: "No, I was busy on other matters." He hadn't read it either...
Truman read him the passage. Would Hook go back to his A.F. of L. followers and recommend that they submit their demands ($1.15 instead of $1.12 an hour wages, double time instead of time and a half for overtime, a closed-shop contract with big Bethlehem shipyard) to arbitration? Hook flopped and squirmed, finally promised to put it up to the machinists but not with his recommendation, and fled from the angry committee, wailing that he had been "accorded brutal treatment." At week's end, except for a little work performed by nonstriking workers who had crossed the machinists...
...Harvard intellect was shown up over a coast-to-coast hook-up last night when Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44 was crushingly overcome on Professor Quiz' question and answer show. Rosenbloom, commonly known as the "sagebrush of Matthews," could only tie for third, with 191 points out of a possible...
...smart Japanese pilot would shoot down a Pan Am plane. Japanese external airline expansion probably has come to a temporary end. At Singapore, Pan Am will hook up with Dutch-owned KLM airliners flying to The Netherland East Indies and Australia, British flying boats leaving Singapore for northern and western points...