Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union-shop contract in the captive coal mines owned & operated by the country's biggest steel companies. Substantially 90% of the total annual production of bituminous coal in the U.S. was under union-shop contracts. Even an estimated 84% of captive-mine workers who were eligible to join Lewis' union had done so. Some mines were organized 100%. Lewis could not understand why the captive-mine owners balked at a union shop. Actually, Mr. Lewis knew very well why they would not sign up. Steel had fought the union shop tooth & nail. Steel dreaded the union shop...
...Including three refresher schools for U.S. civilian airmen who want to join the Eagle Squadron or British Ferry Command...
Modern Design (Sammy Kaye; Victor). The celebrated boo-eeps of Pall Mall's radio plug. Listeners to the record are supposed to join in with their own boo-eeps, as Sammy Kaye's audiences...
...consisted of modernized versions of the old Spanish classical dances (the Bolero, the Spanish tango, etc.). Between shows Eduardo locked his buxom young daughter in the dressing room. Tijuana was that kind of a place. After the last show of the day, they went back into the U.S. to join the family at Chula Vista...
...statement from Yale officials said they made every effort to avoid a strike. "The university respects the rights of non-union employees just as much as it does the rights of union members. The university, if it agreed to a union shop, would force non-union employees to join the union and pay dues against their will...