Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember a bricklayer who never spoke more than two words. One was "bricks," the other "mortar." Once after a long layoff he fell down a well. When he hollered "Help!" a moth flew out of his mouth...
...easy meat for grey-flanneled, hawk-eyed men from nearby Cambridge will be the 1450 women from Wellesley, returned to their studies after a ten-weeks, Fuel-saving layoff, if what Mary C. Lyons, of Lake Waban's publicity office, says is true. Gist of her lengthy (1300 word), report was that her girls had worked hard--"filled seed--packages"--in the experimental interim...
...with the War Labor Board) was sent on an extensive field trip to talk with union heads in Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland, Akron, and other cities. He also gathered background material on scores of strikes, some routine, some spectacular, and including the nationally publicized Allis-Chalmers layoff of defense production workers in 1941. At a few points no interest was shown, but most of the unions expressed their willingness to cooperate. Not until the ground had been fully prepared through this extensive field work was the project put before President Conant, in January...
While Lowell's '42 champions rested the Goldcoasters and the Bunnies took one big step further towards this year's crown in the first games since the week before the Christmas vacation. The effects of this long layoff were apparent, especially in the Adams-Eliot tilt...
Last year, the skaters played a three-game series with the Princeton Tigers, and two contests were won by the Nassau sextet. There will thus be a three-week layoff between struggles for the Chasemen, whose next engagement is a return encounter with the Boston University Terriers, the same squad which fell 18 to 3 to the Crimson club in its last embroglio...