Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 54 days of industrial warfare, peace came last week to Detroit. All that time Chrysler Corp. had been closed and 56 glass and rubber plants as well as many other supply factories throughout the U. S. were also closed. Automobiles which people wanted to buy were not being made. Perhaps 150,000 workers who needed work and wages got neither. Best name for this standstill was what the Irish called their six-year civil war: the Trouble...
Harvard tallied early in the first period and ran up three point lead by the third when the New York veterans put on a series of withering attacks to tie the score. Dave Eaton and Stacy Hulse retrieved the game for their mates when they sank the rubber twice in the last four minutes of play...
Never faltering before the New York blast, the Crimson rallied to net the winning shots in the last four minutes of play. Dave Eaton led off at 16:40 by taking a pass from Prenie Willetts and sinking the rubber from a difficult angle...
...unions. Nor did they set up C. I. O. merely because they disliked individual A. F. of L. leaders, or disapproved of the way some unions were run. Basic complaint was that while A. F. of L. talked of organizing the big, mass-production industries, steel, rubber, autos, etc., it accomplished nothing. Lesser complaints were that unions were arbitrarily run by executives, that new members pouring in were frequently denied votes (mostly because new members threatened the complicated structure of union benefits that old members had accumulated). First peace negotiations broke down because A. F. of L. officials insisted that...
...tons, which was blown open under the chalk cliffs of Dover but, with tugs, made the beach. The modern British destroyer Gipsy, after rescuing and landing three Nazi airmen who had flown over London's outskirts and abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich when an explosion that felt on shore like an earthquake blasted her apart, killed 29 men. Another victim was the 11,063-ton refrigerator ship Sussex, damaged in the English Channel. Off one east-coast port, the British 8,886-ton freighter Mangalore...