Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until the 13-day TV-radio strike was settled. It meant the prospect of a newspaperless New York City for the fourth time in four years and of work stoppages by 12,300 Western Electric workers and 75,000 rubberworkers. Above all, it meant the threat of a nationwide rail strike...
Bargaining Tool. Nothing could cripple the complex economy of the U.S. more swiftly or spectacularly than a rail strike. In a month-long walkout, the President told Congress last week, unemployment would rocket from the current 3.6% level to 15%, and the gross national product would plummet by nearly $100 billion-after a first quarter during which the $764 billion-a-year G.N.P. failed to show any substantial growth for the first time since 1961. Some 750,000 New York, Philadelphia and Chicago commuters would be stranded, and Defense Department shipments would be cut by as much as 40% -including...
Plainly the President could not-and, as he made it clear last week, would not -permit a rail strike. The question was how to avoid it. As of last week, the Administration had exhausted the 60-day no-strike injunctions provided under the Railroad Labor Act. To prevent 137,000 workers in six shopcraft unions from tying up 138 railroads by taking a walk, Johnson had to request special legislation from Congress extending the strike deadline by 20 days. By margins of 81 to 1 in the Senate and 396 to 8 in the House, he got what he wanted...
...sooner in office than he counter manded a Castello Branco order and rehired-at least temporarily-1,500 surplus social security workers who had just been fired. He also suspended a special 15% profit tax that Castello Branco had put through, held up a fare hike on some government rail lines and hinted that he might even double the country's minimum wage to $148 a month. But the military hard-liners are there to see that he does not slide...
...want the U.S. to use its influence to help stabilize the world price of such crops as coffee, cocoa and sugar so that fluctuations on the world market will no longer wipe out their export earnings. They also want to enlist U.S. assistance in building new border-spanning roads, rail lines and communications systems to help Latin America become a more closely knit society...