Word: shutdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's busy statisticians counted nearly 25 million bushels already in the bag. Of this amount they figured 12 million bushels saved through the distillers' shutdown, 3,000,000 more from the brewers, 9,000,000 from the bakers. Between them, the Army & Navy expected to save another quarter of a million bushels of wheat within the next six months...
...could find plenty of reason to think that the U.S. economy was in an ominously nervous state. But if he looked out the window, he could hardly fail to see some reassuring signs. The men who manage and man the nation's factories are not contemplating an early shutdown...
...walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough to be profitable. When one department fell behind, threatening a shutdown, a shop steward growled: "Look, you lazy bums, let's do a day's work for a change." The department soon caught...
Atlanta felt no more than minor inconvenience, and teachers actually found new hope for teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch...
...Maynard, Mass, the American Woolen Co.'s Assabet Mill, world's largest producer of woolen and worsted goods, closed down last week for the first time in eight years. It called the shutdown "an Easter vacation." In Atlanta, the Atlanta Woolen Mills Co. also shut its main branch. But it put no sugar coating on its reason: "We closed because we did not have enough orders to keep going...