Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Taft-Hartley law was passed over President Truman's veto, Truman nonetheless used the cooling-off machinery ten times in six years. Before last week, Eisenhower had used it only five times in seven years. These 15 major strike threats and strikes included four on the docks, four on atomic-energy installations, three in the coal mines and one each in the steel, copper, telephone and meatpacking industries. The second fact-finding board, appointed March 15, 1948, investigated a meat-packing strike, became one of four to see its strike settled before an injunction...
Though Roden paid off his tax debts within a year, he could not quit. For more than six years he averaged a raid a week, stealing in all some 400 cattle, worth $90,000. Even after giving Mischker his cut, Roden had enough left over to finance his roulette losses and to set up a beauty parlor for his girl friend, Widow Irmgard Wakulenko...
...fragments and had interviewed hundreds of refugees who had fled the Communists; most convincing of all, they had examined captured weapons and uniforms that clearly originated across the border in North Viet Nam. But at the last minute, the Laotians had decided against presenting to the fact finders their "six North Vietnamese prisoners." The reason: the men admittedly had not been captured in battle but had deserted...
...Six straight Columbia triumphs followed in the next six years, as Harvard football plunged to an all-time low. But the long years of suffering were nearly at an end. In 1955, the Crimson soundly whipped the Lions, 21 to 7, in the rain and mud at Baker Field. Benham engineered the varsity's defeat in 1956, but with his graduation passed an era in Columbia football...
...Lions are a much improved club since last year, and "are capable of giving anybody in the league a good ball game," said Crimson coach John Yovicsin yesterday. Nevertheless, they will be without the full-time services of ace fullback and captain Harvey Brookins and with six sophomores on the starting team, more mistakes than usual can be expected...