Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conflict between the supporters of war and peace will come out into the open tonight when over 150 undergraduates and interested outsiders gather in front of Emerson Hall to picket the long-heralded Militant Aid to Britain rally...
Representatives from all the Houses, from the Teachers' Union, and from the Law School and the School of Architecture have been organized to form the basis of the picket line, which will mass in the Yard outside the hall before and during the 7:30 o'clock meeting...
...Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages from 50? to 75? an hour. Meanwhile, Army pilots from Moffett Field went through the picket line without interference to fly away the 17 completed planes. But the factory stood idle. One minor division of the defense program was stalled...
...Sometimes at dawn turkeys go "high-stepping." With lifted wings they hop, jump up & down, then spring forward. During this "Turkey Trot," the hens sing "quit, quit," while the gobblers make high-pitched rattles "like a hard wood stick scraped rapidly along a picket fence...
With only a few mechanics, timekeepers and the grim, grey mountains looking on, Mayor Jenkins coddled his thundering 2½-ton Mormon Meteor once around the course. Then in a twinkling, the wooden markers (set at soft, intervals) became a picket fence, the flat track a gigantic bowl of salt. Round & round he whirred. In less than 15 minutes, a huge blackboard was raised outside the timekeeper's shack: "New World's Record for 50 kilometers-172.915 miles per hour." An eyeblink later, another board went up, marking a new record for 50 miles. Then, in quick succession...