Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geronimo! In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt on a ledge, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
Even if prefabricators do get into large-scale production soon, they will still have one hurdle to jump, highest of all. Many a U.S. town, spurred by featherbedding unions and building contractors, has building codes which ban prefabricated houses outright or contain tricky regulations which factory-built dwellings cannot meet. And many a buyer will also find that members of A.F. of L.'s building-trades unions will not wire, install plumbing, or assemble a prefabricated house...
...Five hundred glum pickets ring the plants of the big-four packing houses. Wrapped in heavy clothing, they huddle around bonfires, crowd into hastily built shacks and drink coffee out of big kettles heated on bonfires. They jump around, swinging their big arms to keep warm. The bar in the union hall locked up its whiskey and beer 'for the duration,' sells only coke and tomato juice. If a drunk appears on the picket line he is yanked out, hauled home, cussed...
...having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
...agreement broke the logjam that had dammed up collective bargaining in the auto industry's Big Three. Three hours later Chrysler Corp., not wanting Ford to get a competitive jump, signed up with the union too. But the Ford contract was still the big news. Beyond the pay agreement, it had another important provision: the turbulent U.A.W. had agreed to make its unruly members toe the line. What the Ford Motor Co. had won, the others would soon want and probably get. But the troubles of Ford were still far from over...