Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standstill. The P.T.A. canceled its fun festival. Students lazed around The Corner Shoppe across the street from the maple-shaded courthouse, drinking Cokes, leafing through girlie magazines, playing the pinball machine. Both management and labor at the nearby American Viscose Corp. plant spoke up hotly against the school shutdown. Key reason for the bitterness: the Negro population in Front Royal is so small (8% of the total population) that the town could work out its problems as well as any average Northern community. Editor Edward T. Bromfield Jr. of the weekly Warren Sentinel complained bitterly because Front Royal...
Though the "Merlin law" offered the 2,500 inmates of Italy's 543 licensed houses the opportunity to enter "centers of social re-education," no one really believed that last week's shutdown would end prostitution in Italy. Even Deputy Merlin-who four months ago lost her campaign for re-election to Italy's Senate-concedes that most of the girls from the shuttered houses as well as the vast majority of the nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent...
U.A.W.'s Reuther sermonized that a simultaneous shutdown by the automakers would be "immoral . . . unthinkable . . . a violation of the law." But Ford's Bugas countered: "The best advice from our lawyers is that it would be legal...
...first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...
Though President Eisenhower gave the industry special permission to cooperate during the Suez shutdown, the Justice Department charged that oilmen had gone far beyond that. In early January 1957, prices of Texas crude oil rose generally by 35? per bbl.; shortly thereafter, gasoline, home-heating oil and other refined products went up in most markets by about 1? per gal. Said the Justice Department: "For the purpose and with the intent of raising, fixing and stabilizing prices of crude oil and automotive gasoline, each defendant . . . would increase its posted price of crude oil . . . and each defendant engaged in the marketing...