Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government was after him. C. I. O.'s tough young United Automobile Workers had given formal notice of their intent to strike Ford's River Rouge, Highland Park and Lincoln plants. In Dearborn, Mich., in the vast River Rouge plant, mounted policemen patrolled the grounds. There was no trouble yet, but no one could say when there might...
...Chicago McCormick Works, had shut down. And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder, for legislative action to prevent strikes...
...House Judiciary Committee his plan for watering down heated disputes before they reached the strike stage. His plan: if efforts of the Conciliation Service failed, 60% of all employes at a defense plant must approve the strike at a secret ballot, and notice must then be given of intent to strike; Government officials would investigate and report within ten days; the strike must be deferred until 30 days after the report...
...come by, and she didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter intent upon making a theatrical splash. It was promptly sponsored by William Wrigley Jr., later taken over by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. One of the most popular and durable of the day time serials, its estimated audience was 2,750,000 five times a week, twice a day, over...
...races except the Yale race and the Adams Cup regatta, which will be held at Annapolis, will be on the Charles this Spring, where M.I.T. is planning with lethal intent to win some Harvard shirts...