Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...according to the if-men, when Coach Floyd. Stale's boys yielded only five runs to a strong Holy Cross nine and scored one themselves. Tivnan, hurler for the Crusaders, showed plenty of stuff, allowing only three scratch in field hits and whiffing four on strikes. The Holy Cross picket line had to make only three put-outs, testifying to Tivana's superior talent, and the infield handled the other outs...
Henry Wallace, who likes to walk to work from the Wardman Park Hotel, was using a long Government Cadillac last week - and entering his office by a side driveway of Washington's massive Commerce Building. Reason: there was a picket line at the front door. The National Maritime Union, which put it there, was picketing not Henry Wallace and his Commerce Department but their tenants, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land and his War Shipping Administration...
...every five regular readers felt the lack enough to go to the printing plants, brave shouting picket lines and buy copies. Some newspapers printed box scores showing the city's growing thirst for news; the Daily News (normal weekday circ. 2,000,000) sold 135,000 copies on the seventh day of the strike, 500,000 a week later...
Rumors ran through the picket lines that the oldtime strong-arm men of the Chicago circulation wars, the late Moe Annenberg's boys, were moving in. Sporadic violence flared around the Daily News plant. In midtown it suddenly became easier to buy papers, especially the News and the Times; boys and old men were posted at street corners, peddling papers at a 100 to 150% markup...
...Union pickets at the plants paid little heed to those who bought single copies, sometimes spilled the bundles of those who bought more. Many of the strikers were in high good humor; they had made a killing on Picket Line in the third race at Aqueduct, collecting $46.20 for their $2 investment...