Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Similar retaliation would meet any hostile move against U.S. ships convoying Nationalist men and supplies through the Red picket line around Quemoy. The news behind this promise: orders had already gone out to the Seventh Fleet to break the blockade by escorting Nationalist supply ships to within three miles of Quemoy-and perhaps all the way to the beach if Chiang's gunboats failed to beat off Red raiders...
...Warehouse Employees' Local 730 after its treasury was looted by its officers in 1952, Baker joined up with Jimmy Hoffa, went to work in St. Louis for Hoffa Lieutenant Harold Gibbons. Baker's specialty: "belly bumping," i.e., using his gross girth to direct or obstruct picket line traffic...
Kierdorf said there would be no vote. Just like that. Within a week we had a Teamster picket line. All truck deliveries stopped. We had 20 or 30 meetings with the union. Kierdorf was our man. We didn't deal with anyone else...
Even after settling with the Inquirer last month, the Teamsters continued to give firm support to the Guild, refused to cross its picket line to go back to work. The Teamsters thereby limited the Inquirer to lobby sales averaging 19,000 v. normal circulation...
...growing nuclear potential. At the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, the Navy launched Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris solid-charge missile (TIME, March...