Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superficial causes of the conflict were incredibly trivial. At General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Cleveland early in the week the management postponed a meeting with a shop grievance committee from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. A few key metal workers belonging to United Automobile Workers union promptly "sat down" at their jobs, bringing the whole plant, with its 7,000 employes, to a halt. Already idle were 1,500 Fisher Body and Chevrolet assembly workers in Atlanta who had quit ostensibly because several employes were fired for wearing U. A. W. buttons...
...that every one of the G. M. strikes had been called against the wishes of a vast majority of the workers affected-the Labor leaders did not comment. Backing for the G. M. executive's assertion came in Flint when all 500 employes of Buick's sheet metal plant sent Buick President Harlow H. Curtice a loyal New Year's greeting, following up a similar Christmas message sent by 1,400 transmission plant workers. But in the automobile industry's complex production mechanism, withdrawal of a few key workmen is just as paralyzing as withdrawal...
...mined in the U. S. or imported from abroad, from getting into the U. S. banking system, where it swells the already swollen credit base. By New Deal law all imported gold and all newly-mined gold has to be sold to the Government, the Treasury paying for the metal with checks drawn on its accounts in the Federal Reserve Banks. Hitherto the Treasury has then replenished its checking accounts by depositing in the Reserve Banks gold certificates against the gold it bought, thus injecting the metal directly into the country's credit system...
...instead of issuing gold certificates, the Treasury will reimburse itself for its gold purchases by selling Government bonds to the public. The metal it buys will be simply put in dead storage, with no certificates outstanding against it. In banking parlance such gold will be "sterilized...
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