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Word: nonmembership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company stood firm, declaring it could never make union membership or nonmembership a condition of employment. The union struck. Work on $450,000,000 worth of cruisers, destroyers, tankers, freighters ceased. Federal's schedule, which had been way ahead, dropped drearily back day after day. To avoid further delay the company offered the yard to the Government to run as it liked. The President, well aware of Federal's splendid production record, hesitated. Conferences got nowhere. And after 16 days of idleness in the East Coast's fourth largest private shipyard, Mr. Roosevelt told the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Navy Moves In | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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