Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle started with a statement by R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for the steel industry, that the industry is considering a mutual-aid pact or even an industrywide shutdown should the union decide to strike one or two firms instead of striking the whole industry at once as in the past. Such a pact would be similar to the profit-sharing pact signed by struck airlines last fall (TIME, Nov. 10), except that the airlines later got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which can exempt airlines from antitrust procedures...
...difference between life and death. The human body cannot survive unless at least one kidney is doing its job of filtering the body's waste products from the blood so that they can be voided in the urine. A variety of things can cause an abrupt kidney shutdown: shock with heavy blood loss (after surgery or an accident), some severe infections, mismatched transfusions, and many poisons. Of these, carbon tetrachloride attacks the kidneys directly; most are general poisons (often, overdoses of common drugs such as barbiturates and even aspirin) which the overloaded natural kidneys cannot void fast enough...
...Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects of the long shutdown were still apparent in the first Sunday editions. With a Page One explanation, the Herald Tribune stuffed three-week-old magazine supplements into its Sunday paper, plus all three color comic sections readers had missed during the strike. The News, too, inserted a Christmasy magazine section two weeks...
Since the high school seniors affected by the shutdown will be accepted into colleges in the South without any difficulty, the weight of a Harvard decision to reject them would be negligible. It might, moreover, discourage southern applicants on a broader scale, and it would also be an unfortunate precedent in an admissions policy which tries to consider individuals rather than quotas or IBM statistics...
...shutdown was caused by just 877 men from the independent, closely knit Union of Newspaper and Mail Deliverers. Only 37% of the union showed up to vote on the offer of a $4-a-week raise, which would run pay to $107.82 for a 40-hr. daytime week, plus another boost of $3 a week after a year. The 37% voted down the settlement, 877 to 772, although it had been agreed upon by employers and union negotiators, and the picket lines went up. The papers still managed to get out issues for sale at their buildings. Enterprising newsboys bought...