Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain 200 years ago, the thirst for the picturesque was almost as powerful as the thirst for port. Since Queen Elizabeth's day, there had been a lively interest in the "luxuriance of fancy" and "fayr-est workmanshippe" that assumed the Orient to be one vast curio shop. Toward the end of the 18th century, travelers began to bring back reports of more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these...
Strictly speaking, 6,000 unionized hourly workers at seven Lockheed Aircraft plants were voting last week on a proposed three-year contract granting 28.3? in hourly wage increases, along with triple holiday pay and better vacations. But the real issue at stake was the fate of a union shop at Lockheed. The International Association of Machinists had demanded a union shop; a three-man fact-finding board came out for it; President Kennedy supported it. Alone in opposing it was Lockheed Chairman Courtlandt Gross, who insisted that every worker should be able to decide for himself whether he wanted...
...Free Meat. Worried about the peasants' sparse diet, Cantinflas recently opened a butcher shop to which he donates free meat. "When I heard that the campesinos of the region and my own workers eat meat maybe once a year, I decided to have this service at the ranch...
...Machinists and the Carpenters have grown smaller. Since 1956, the labor movement as a whole has lost 1.500,000 old members and gained 1,500,000 new ones. But, as Transport Workers' President Michael Quill admits, "we have organized the new ones because we compelled them, through closed-shop agreements, to get in line...
...local political sensitivities. But in Córdoba, Argentina, two weeks ago, when Kaiser reluctantly called a ten-day shutdown of its auto assembly lines in order to work off a prohibitively large backlog of unsold cars, hundreds of workers seized 50 supervisors, locked them in a paint shop, and held them hostage until local Kaiser Boss James McCloud agreed to keep the plant in operation...