Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major labor dispute, the Federal Govern ment had played a role consistent with the "partnership" theory of labor-management relations. The Administra tion, without public threats or posturing, made it clear to both sides that it would take action in the interests of the econ omy if the shutdown continued much longer. Then, having made its point, it re lied both on economic and moral pressure to bring about a voluntary settlement...
Local Reaction. The shutdown choked off the vast weight that the steel industry pours daily into the U.S. economy: 250,000 tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
JAPANESE IMPORTS are forcing shutdown of some U.S. mills, complain U.S. textilemen, who are stepping up campaign for stiffer tariffs. Both New England's Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. and Bates Manufacturing Co. are extending vacation shutdowns one week because of increasing Japanese competition, while South Carolina's small Camperdown Mills is closing down completely "in the face of Japanese competition." Japanese, however, are acting to curb exports themselves...
...regard for the state, its political and financial reputation. If a paper publishes or even hints at news from any meeting closed to the public, it can be shut down for as long as three months-and nobody on its staff may write for another publication during the shutdown. Persons attacked in a paper can demand twice as much space for rebuttal. Even newsboys are forbidden to shout any news that indirectly causes "doubts" about the government...
...just passed an insurance examination-but had a quickly fatal attack while shaving. There are undoubtedly many cases in which a younger man will be killed simply because his disease is new while an older man with slowly developing disease will already have compensated, through collateral circulation, for a shutdown in an artery of the same size...