Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Lewis the mine blast which killed in men at Centralia, Ill. (TIME, April 7) was his opportunity for revenge. Under the guise of a "memorial" shutdown to let his miners mourn their dead, he found a new and gruesome way to strike, despite Government ownership of the mines, despite the Supreme Court...
...main political effect of the coal crisis, industrial shutdown and the blizzards and floods has been to draw Britain's workers closer to their Labor Government. The shocks gave Britain's workers a sense of responsibility, a will to work they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...
...which Marshall and his staff will leave March 5, was arranged to consider the peace treaty for Germany. But it will be the first meeting of the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Britain, and France since Britain's economic plight came to a head in the industrial shutdown forced by the coal shortage, leading to some talk that Britain might be forced to reduce her political and military commitments
...Kansas City Star, recovering from the first shutdown in its 66 years, knew just how they felt: it always does. In its Midwestern heartland the Star is much more than an institution: it is part of the bloodstream, a landmark as indigenous as the Kaw River, waving wheat, stubbled prairie, Prohibition and Republicanism...
...nick of time, manufacturers canceled orders for mass layoffs of more than 750,000. The Ford Motor Co., which had laid off 20,000, promptly called them back. The other auto companies, turning out cars at a postwar peak of 96,519 cars a week, canceled their shutdown orders, kept producing almost without interruption. But the strike may well cause a break in the all-important flow of supplies to automakers in a few weeks, force some of the plants to shut down then for a brief period...