Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's editorial, the Radcliffe newspaper Percussion criticized the shutdown order...
Since the test stoppage came after an eleventh-hour series of small-weapons shots at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Proving Grounds (see below), it brought no immediate shutdown of nuclear-weapons development. But the commitment, said the State Department and the Foreign Office, would be kept for one year, provided that the Russians 1) set off no nuclear explosions that could be detected by the free world's monitoring system, and 2) continued to negotiate toward a workable inspection system. It would be extended if the three nations, after setting up an inspection system, could make...
...plan calls for restoration to the idled airline of the net extra passenger and freight revenues diverted to the other airlines during a labor shutdown...
When the strikers walked out, the shutdown of GM's automotive division was completed within an hour
...long bargaining table in the English Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Within 18 minutes, General Motors and Chrysler gave the U.A.W. almost identical offers. It was one more warning to Reuther that the Big Three, bargaining together as never before, might take some drastic action such as a shutdown or delay in bringing out new models if the U.A.W. went through with plans to strike Ford. Reuther plainly could not afford to fight the united front. It would break his strike war chest in a few weeks...