Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factory. Colette- and Juliette work in the nearby Tungsram plant, Andree in the Citroen factory 'in Asnieres. Despite her training years in factory work, Andree's hands are red and swollen from the steel particles thrown off by the cutting tools in the big machine shop where she works with 300 other women...
...jackets are built with a doweled spine wide enough to carry lettering. In addition, records are "factory-sealed" for protection against being played by record-shop disk jockeys. They sell for $4.98, and sell as well or better than the same records in unadorned envelopes...
...lawless incidents that bring disgrace and shame to every sincere American." Asked Sligh : "Is it the primary purpose of this organization [A.F.L.-C.I.O.] to seize political control of the country?" Suggesting a five-point code of conduct for labor and management, Sligh called for a return to the open shop and an end to labor's organized political activities...
...Meany shot back: "No chance of that. I thought it was [Treasury Secretary George] Humphrey, [Commerce Secretary Sinclair] Weeks and [Defense Secretary Charles] Wilson who were doing that. If the N.A.M. philosophy is to disfranchise unions, then there is no answer but to start a labor party." The closed shop, the union boss snapped, "involves no coercion. It is simply an exercise of our right not to work with a man who is not in a union." Sligh managed to interject: "Do you believe in segregation?" Meany replied: "This is not segregation." Persisted Sligh: "Then it is discrimination." Retorted Meany...
...Western wanderer who must traverse great distances to reach his festive home. For, unless the University allows students more holiday time before Christmas than it has of late, the young gentleman from the hinterlands would be hard put to reach home before the department store Santa Claus closes up shop...