Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cancel out any labor-bill ban on secondary boycotts, Hoffa is already setting timetables to rearrange Teamster contracts so that they will all expire at the same time. He plans to try to work out arrangements with other unions so that their contracts will run out at the same time as Teamster contracts. "This bill is going to bring on national bargaining," Hoffa predicted. "That's where those smart guys in Congress outsmarted themselves...
...Pundit Joseph Alsop wrote last week that between the time Rockefeller began thinking about running against Democrat Averell Harriman for Governor of New York and Election Day last year, he paid for no less than 134 polls of various sorts. At the time he actually made the decision to run, Alsop said, the polls were running 60-40 against...
...makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...
...problems caused by the. blackout, it brought at least one strange and encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said...
...tons for a U.S. miner), and domestic coal still sells in German port cities for $4.75 a ton more than U.S. coal, despite the tariff. West German coal production of 132 million tons a year far exceeds its needs, and its exports are heading down because surpluses in France run to 11,100,000 tons, in Belgium to 7,900,000 tons...