Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also settled was a strike in the Aluminum Co. of America plant at New Kensington, Pa. When middleaged, belligerent Employe Fred Ross objected to paying up his union dues and the management refused to cooperate by firing him, union men struck. Idle for a week were 7,500 men. Again Murray and Hillman interceded. Ross was transferred to the company's plant at Logan's Ferry. C. I. O. strikers, having lost an estimated $250,000 in wages, returned to their jobs, resumed work on aluminum orders required in defense production...
...were a two-week-old fight in the Northwest, where a dispute between A. F. of L. sawmill workers and mill owners tied up delivery of lumber needed for defense construction, and a walkout last week of C. I. O. workers in Aluminum Co.'s plant in New Kensington...
London was not entirely spared, however. In one raid 3OO-year-old Kensington Palace, where British monarchs from William III down through the German Georges lived, where Queen Victoria and Queen Mary were born, was damaged...
...that, because pets are barred from air-raid shelters, great numbers of Britons are deliberately risking their lives by refusing to leave their pets. Only solution, according to the R. S. P. C. A., was to build air-raid shelters for pets. A 36-dog shelter was begun in Kensington Gardens...
Bearded Montagu Collet Norman, 69, Governor of the Bank of England since 1920, began harvesting cabbages on what was formerly his smooth lawn in Kensington...