Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard facts were that Detroit expected a virtual shutdown this week, strike or no strike, Decoration Day or no Decoration Day (the same week in 1937 car production was 131,000), that the steel business placed during the May price cuts was mostly options, not orders, some of them merely verbal, and few even specified the size and composition of the steel wanted; therefore the present increase in production is mainly going into inventory...
...last week a coal crisis existed only in headlines. When 340,000 Appalachian miners first "abstained from work" April 2, big stocks were above ground; 28% of the U. S. soft-coal industry was still free to operate. But last week John Lewis ordered a shutdown May 4 in fields outside the Appalachians, unless the Appalachian operators capitulate. He likewise threatened to close down what is left of Pennsylvania's sick hard-coal industry, unless its operators quickly came to terms in separate negotiations...
...polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions. He was described as looking much tenser than usual. Suddenly his entourage...
...splutter about Moholy-Nagy's "Hitlerism" (TIME, Oct. 24). All that appeared to be at the bottom of this fuss was Moholy-Nagy's earnest and methodical teaching discipline; nine out of 13 New Bauhaus teachers stoutly stood by him and Bauhaus believers were shocked at the shutdown...
After a four-month shutdown and quarrel over new contract terms, Philco re-opened part of its vast Philadelphia factory. Back to work went 500 of the 13,000 who worked there at Philco's peak. They had lost their union shop for a weaker hiring clause giving preference to union workers; their wages were cut 9? an hour for men, 7? for women; their hours were up from 36 to 40 per week...