Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first appearance there in 26 months. The gallery was packed. Ranking diplomats were there and Administration bigwigs; in front-row gallery seats sat Eleanor Roosevelt and Daughter Anna, notepaper in hand. The floor, too, was filled: Representatives (some holding youngsters in their laps), Senators and all the Cabinet except Secretaries Stettinius and Forrestal, who were out of the country...
Last week all this ill feeling culminated in a grave work stoppage-a noisy, angry row which spread into thirteen Detroit war plants, sent over 35,000 Detroit workers into the streets...
...row began when the Minneapolis musicians' local opened negotiations for a new contract by insisting that KSTP hire a minimum of eight staff musicians, three record turners. The dispute went to the War Labor Board. While awaiting a decision, the station got a restraining order to forestall a strike threat. Petrillo met that by ordering a strike, which worked. The Minneapolis court issued a warrant for Petrillo's arrest, which did not work: he stayed out of Minneapolis...
...gaining revenge for a previous debacle. As the final horn was sounded, Lowell held a 20 to 19 advantage, but Baskell and Donahoe committed a multiple foul on high-scorer Monty Singer of the Gold Coasters. The unique affair ended as Singer colly sank two fouls in a row...
...Wall Street, there was a touch of the old fever. Three days in a row the roaring stockmarket pushed sales up to more than 2,000,000 shares. In one wild last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...