Word: shutdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allis, Wis. had been strikebound. Not a wheel had turned on $45,000,000 of defense orders. Late last week about a third (2,500) of the plant's workers went back to work-at the request of the Navy and OPM }. What effect did this one shutdown have on U. S. defense? Iron Age found that the Allis-Chalmers strike had hampered the work of around 30 firms and projects, more than a third of all defense contracts. The Allis-Chalmers strike had held up work...
...hills close down; over the Jogging railroads that curve through the logged-off land, over the pitted roads, the fallers, buckers, choker setters, whistle punks hurry to the cities or for a visit home. This is the period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains...
Last week the Christmas shutdown, was on in earnest, but with a new twist. Spreading through the Northwest was a joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. strike that at week's end had closed 38 mills and five logging camps. Although there was some talk that its long extension might injure national defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate...
...Ohio and Illinois, dying mining and industrial towns in western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading the work of subcontractors into its smallest possible subdivisions. Several moribund New England towns rolled up their sleeves and spit on their hands. But while the defense boom reclaimed old ghost towns, a new question rose: How many new ones would it create...
...towns are not so decadent as they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...