Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunker Hill had few labor difficulties until 1958. Then a depression in the lead and zinc industry forced Bunker Hill, the nation's second largest lead producer (first: St. Joseph Lead Co.), to cut its work force in Kellogg-the first time management had had to exercise the layoff clauses in the contract with the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. When the contract expired May 6, 1959, a deadlock ensued over job security, grievance procedures, seniority, safety regulations and shift schedules...
Brown's one-game resurgence was led by center forward Armando Garoes, who tied with the varsity's Tadhg Sweeney last season for the League lead in goalie-trampling. Garces, back in action after a long layoff, tallied three times as the Bruins defeated Cornell...
...tell mushroom soup from slops. She fires him, and Zachariah wanders thereafter, like a bug in a garbage pail, through the vast black slums of Johannesburg. He gets two jobs in succession and is fired from each for no particularly good reason. After a long layoff he allows his wife to take a temporary job as a domestic servant, and one night he stays with her in her quarters. The police break in and carry him off to jail as a trespasser. Home a few days later, Zachariah finds his wife dead-murdered by a tsotsi (gangster, Zulu style...
...tons) at 85% of capacity. That also happens to be the most efficient operating rate for the industry, since it permits better planning and less overtime pay. One serious drawback is that 85% of capacity means fewer jobs for steelworkers. So far, the drop in production has meant the layoff of nearly 13,000 steelworkers out of some 90,000 in the Pittsburgh area alone...
...perhaps the moldiest fig (jazz lingo for oldfashioned) ever to lift a trumpet. But moldy or not, Trumpeter McCoy has a sizable following, passionately devoted to the chirpy, foot-jiggling style the fans think they remember from the misty corridors of their youth. Last week, after a five-year layoff, "Clyde McCoy and His Waa Waa Dixieland Band" were winding up a successful stand at Manhattan's Roundtable before taking off on a Midwest tour, during which they expect to cash in on a burgeoning craze for facsimile Dixieland-brassy, frenetic and foursquare...