Word: shutdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly 2:02 o'clock one afternoon last week-less than ten hours before the deadline-word reached the steelworkers' Pittsburgh headquarters: Big Steel had capitulated. The creeping threat of a shutdown in the nation's most basic industry was suddenly lifted. His face lined with the strain of waiting, 63-year-old President Phil Murray called in the newsmen: "We are delighted to be able to say that the strike has been averted...
With no compelling reason to compromise and with production outrunning demand, the steel industry might prove as agreeable as the coal industry to a shutdown that would use up customers' stockpiles. Knowing this, steel union leaders were likely to walk cautiously, but CIO President Philip Murray showed no sign of backing down. This week, after getting both sides into a huddle Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching told President Truman that they were hopelessly deadlocked. Murray said this could mean only one thing, strike. Apparently, he was putting his chips on the hope of last-minute intervention...
...John grandly took the law into his own ham hands. The choice was a three-day week or an industrywide shutdown. In order "to remove the stresses & strains which could cause industry and public irritation," he ordered miners east of the Mississippi to go back to work after July 4, but only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays...
...decision to keep open Lamont, despite the $10,000 extra cost involved, was made earlier this week by University officials after the Student Council had earlier reported that the high cost would probably force a summer shutdown. The report was made through the Council's Library Committee...
When the administration makes its final decision on Lamont today--a summer shutdown was tentatively scheduled before the building was opened--it should consider carefully the possibility of having the library open for part of the time. After all, to close an air-conditioned building during the summer because it is air-conditioned does seem a little bit absurd...