Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Game Shift. The President's bold seizure stopped a strike, but did not solve the unrest of the railworkers. Fifteen of the rail unions that gave in (TIME, Jan. 3) were still as angry as the three that held out. Aggressive George M. Harrison of the Railway Clerks, an ardent Rooseveltian for ten years, was not muttering about revenge at the polls. The 15 non-operating unions (with 1,100,000 members) issued a joint blast at their treatment...
...Miami's Tropical Park on New Year's Day morning 10,900 racegoers-tourists, servicemen and shipyard workers on their way home from the night shift-shoved $453,103 at the clerks behind the pari-mutuel windows-twice as much as they bet last New Year's Day. Many of them drove their cars to the track, though the gasoline shortage in Florida is so acute that big trucks operated by the Overseas Transportation Co. to carry food to isolated Key West are unable to get enough gas to keep to their schedules. That afternoon...
...shift that surprised London military men will send Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack officer with an unparalleled grasp of the problems of daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point...
Invasion was coming. The Allied chiefs had been picked. The London press reported millions of U.S. soldiers pouring into Britain ("straphanging across the Atlantic," one newspaper called it). The fact that British railways were busy with a "gigantic" shift of men and supplies was public property...
...soup fog might be catastrophic to invasion barges, compelled to navigate blindly. It would also rob the invaders of a chance to exploit initial advantage, help the enemy to shift his troops without air hindrance...