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...refrigerators and laundry units a year is receiving only 35% of its normal volume, and is selling General Electric appliances instead. Nevertheless, Westinghouse has kept most of its dealers loyal by stretching inventory, stepping up advertising allowances, and in some cases even supplying them with competitors' products, e.g., lamp bulbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Stalemate at Westinghouse | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...speeding car loaded with workers headed toward a mass of cursing, shouting men blocking the entrance to the Westinghouse lamp plant in Bloomfield, N.J. one morning last week. The car plowed through, knocking down a picket and two policemen. In nearby Edison, N.J. four men were injured as they tried to halt cars driving into the local Westinghouse plant. In Sharon, Pa. bricks flew, cars were damaged, and some pickets were hauled off to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble in the Streets | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

that the Hanukkah miracle happened. The Assyrians were overthrown in Jerusalem, and according to legend, when the Jews returned to purge the temple of its alien idols and rededicate it, there was only sacred oil enough for one day's burning of the temple lamp. Yet the lamp burned eight full days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Feast of Lights | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Then Cambridge officer "300" came on the scene, and instead of rescuing the harassed student helped the two attackers rifle his pockets, the student said. "His badge looked very tinny under the artificial light of the street lamp," he said, "and when I touched the badge, he arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police Arrest Junior for Insolent Conduct | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

...voting dragged on, a blistering sun turned the kampong into a steam bath, but nobody left. Even after the polls closed, the wilted voters waited to watch the counting by kerosene lamp. This was typical of polling places everywhere-intense, inarticulate interest, no disorders of any sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Voice of the Kampongs | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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