Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Important repair work on 17 U.S. and British ships was delayed when 6,000 C.I.O. workers at Robins Drydock and Repair Co., New York, quit work for three days. Reason: acetylene-torch burners would not work beside four non-union burners...
When the R.A.F. moved in and began to use young military pilots, the civilians looked down their noses. In spite of the high pay, some quit. Others stayed around and beefed. Their favorite complaints: that the R.A.F. treated civilian flyers like hired help, that the flight westward was not safe. All three of the shuttle planes were lost as the result of pilot error...
...Coach's bench at Notre Dame, hallowed by the great Rockne's buttprints, is the toughest spot in U.S. football. On it this season is 33-year-old Frank Leahy, who quit Boston College at the chance to coach at Notre Dame (his alma mater) when Elmer Layden last winter resigned to become tsar of the professional National Football League. Besides a traditionally tough schedule, brave Coach Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand...
Secretary Wickard last week picked big, blond, Iowa-born Roy F. Hendrickson to head the Surplus Marketing Administration, charged with the actual purchasing of food for Britain. A onetime newspaperman who quit writing farm news in order to go to work for the Government's subsistence homesteads program, the new administrator is typical of many a departmental expert who has grown up under the New Deal. He was only 29, with eight newspaper years behind him (he left the Sioux City, Iowa Tribune when he won a Buick in a lottery), when he joined the Government, soon became Director...
...raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew to $35,000,000 before he quit in 1910, and the Rockefeller family and foundations have since given another $35,000,000. In 1906, having assured his university's permanence and presented John D. with his first balanced budget (surplus: $26), Harper died...