Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspector's shutdown, newest in a five-year series of official and unofficial anti-Protestant blows in Colombia, stems from an agreement between the government and the Vatican. The agreement makes the islands one of 18 Colombian "mission territories" reserved to Catholics. It was signed three years ago, when Catholic, arch-Conservative Laureano Gómez was President...
...around the country for several months settled in Detroit last week. This time it was not just the independents who were being hurt. Chrysler Corp., hard hit by the slow cleanup sale of its 1953 cars, laid off some 9,200 workers. Nash has already announced an eight-day shutdown to help dealers trim inventories; Studebaker is shut down until early next month; Hudson and Packard cut their work forces. Still unaffected are General Motors and Ford Motor Co., both of which are planning higher output of their cars in the first quarter of 1954 than in the same period...
...strike cost newspapers an estimated $10 million in ad revenue, while the striking employees gave up about $2,000,000 in wages. Even the Photo-Engravers' Union, whose 400 New York newspaper members touched off the shutdown of the city's papers when they refused to arbitrate their differences with the publishers, profited little. They finally agreed to accept a $3.75 weekly package increase, which was almost the same as the publishers' offer (v. the $7.50 the union had demanded), and to let three fact-finders decide if they should get any more. Although the fact-finders...
...Slump & Shutdown. Last week all Florence was caught up in La Pira's latest Christian endeavor: persuading the government to take over the shut-down Pi-gnone factory on Florence's outskirts, the oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January...
...into effect plans to mass-produce color TV receivers and tri-color tubes." Chromatic Television Laboratories, Inc., which says it can produce a tube to receive black & white as well as color from either the CBS or the RCA system, complained that the defense order had forced a shutdown of its production line...