Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were just as confident that somehow or other the nation's defenses would be adequate to cope with Russia's bomb. Anyhow, that too was something to worry about later on; the possible personal consequences were hard to visualize. It took a while, especially in the heat of the baseball pennant races and the cool beauty of the early autumn, for the full meaning of either situation to sink...
...would be called out of steel-fabricating plants the minute Philip Murray thought the right strategic moment had come. In a slower, creeping fashion-if the shutdown lengthened-unemployment would spread to railroads, auto plants, thousands of steel-dependent factories. In the wink of an eye last week, the nation's economic backbone was paralyzed by the first industry-wide steel strike since the walkout...
...state of his mine workers. He absented himself from negotiations with the operators at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield, W.Va., and traveled to Springfield, Ill. to visit his 91-year-old mother who was seriously Ill. But the two-week-old coal strike he had imposed upon the nation-and on his 480,000 coal miners-was clearly not accomplishing its purpose...
...week's end, some 50,000 non-U.M.W. miners were digging 400,000 tons of coal a day, about 18% of the nation's normal output. Coal stocks above ground were enough to keep the country running normally for about two months; with steel shut down, the supply would last far longer than that. The miners themselves, with winter to face and grocery bills to pay, were restless...
Steel and coal made the big news. But across the nation's labor fronts three other costly, protracted strikes tugged at the economic lifelines...