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Maintenance workers walked out of American Airlines hangars, set up picket lines, had a brief clash with police, soon were joined by sympathy strikers in the American Airlines shops in Chicago and Detroit. For a full day American Airlines had to abandon its 24 flights in & out of Chicago and 22 other flights in & out of Detroit...
Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo slipped through an anti-Bilbo picket line around his Washington apartment-by disguising himself as a laundryman with a sack slung over his shoulder. "I just went on about my country's business," he crowed...
...sign of the times was "52 for 40 or Fight." (see Labor). The sight of the times was blue-coated cops standing by at picket lines. In many cities there were other lines-before unemployment-compensation offices: claims were up 20.7% over the preceding week, had reached close to the 1,500,000 mark...
...week 80,000 workers were on strike, including 5,000 at the Crosley Corp. in Cincinnati, 7,500 at the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp. in Savannah. There were 40 work stoppages throughout the nation; new ones threatened daily as the old ones ended. Even the oldtime prewar gags to attract picket-line attention reappeared - in Hollywood, of course...
...Superdumbo, assigned to keep radio and visual watch for airmen going down, spotted three life rafts in the water. Already in contact with a submarine, the Superdumbo passed the word. But two Jap picket boats headed for the life rafts. The Superdumbo dropped four bombs which missed. Another Superdumbo showed up with two PB4Y (Liberator) Dumbos. They strafed and sank the Japanese craft, then guided the submarine to the survivors...