Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy the shift of power meant quick promotions for the violently pro-Nazi; quick resignations for others; for still others, a ratlike scurry across the Mediterranean to the side of Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
Experienced marketing specialists advocate permanent ceilings on manufactured milk products, carefully calculated so as to forestall any tendency of dairymen to cut production and shift to other kinds of farming. After that, the experts say, a rebuilding of milk prices can be undertaken...
...Sunday the keyed-up swing shift at Richmond got started. The first 200-ton piece of double-bottomed keel section of the Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was hoisted on to the keel blocks. After that things moved swiftly...
Local No. 1's requirements proved stiffer than the army had expected. When the first 14 Negroes appeared at the pit, 100 miners on the night shift walked out but were urged back to work by the management. Subsequently the whole local refused to work as long as a single Negro was below ground. It was at that point that Mr. Robinson was called from Boston, arrived in Butte for a Sunday meeting held in the Fox Theater. Solemnly 1,700 miners listened to telegrams from Phil Murray, Paul McNutt, General Brehon Somervell. Solemnly they voted to stick...
...acute. Some war plants are so huge that it would take a worker his entire lunch period just to get to a central cafeteria and more than that to get out the gate; some production jobs are so hush-hush that workers are locked in for their entire shift. Nobody knows how many millions factory feeders gross annually, but it is a big regional business...