Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a two week layoff over the holidays, the College squash squad swings into action again in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets League for the last week of competition this term with an "A" match against the Newton Squash and Tennis Club this afternoon at the University Squash Courts...
Defense against aerial threats showed improvement over past performances this season. Art Fitzgerald, the halfback who scored three times against the Crimson last year, made his first appearance in heavy drill after a layoff of more than two weeks, following an aggravation of a pre-season injury in the Dartmouth game. Vandy Kirk, who broke his hand against Princeton, was on hand, but did not participate in heavy action...
Swinging into rapid action after a two-week hour exam layoff, the Student Council Constitution Committee plowed through four important areas in a meeting lasting almost three hours last night. The group emerged not only with a large part of the constitution completed, but also with a definite date for completion of the document and presentation of it to the student body...
...increase. After weeks of negotiations the company made its final offer and flatly announced it would reopen the plant on Aug. 7. Union officials did not accept the terms, but 800 employes crossed the picket line and went back to work. Previously overstaffed, the company mailed layoff notices...
Most of the noise came from representatives of 27 unions protesting last week's layoff of 450 Disney employes, almost half the studio's staff. Replied General Manager John F. Reeder: the new pay schedule (a 25% increase-an estimated $1 million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free...