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...Viet Nam. The transfer process is more efficient than filling such vacancies from Stateside, of course, but it does not please the individual G.I.s. "Man, Nixon's just foolin' the people," said one disappointed trooper. "The division's goin' home, but all of us are stayin' right here, still humpin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Half Step Toward Home | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...name. "You the guy been makin' all the trouble in town?" Mumbling. Fright. "We hear you been stayin' with the niggers and stirrin' up trouble." No, sir. Now some action; two of the men began looking through my car. That wasn't good, since I had 500 copies of the Courier sitting on the back seat. They didn't know what the paper was, but they could tell they didn't like...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain, as in Russia, any strike is illegal), the sit-downers were summarily fired. In addition, the government-run labor syndicate cut off their unemployment benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Victory for Franco | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...hanging around the great Babe Ruth. Ruth was making $70,000 a year, and Durocher $4,500; Leo did his best to spend as if they were equals, and soon owed nearly everybody. He was a whiz in the field, but Ruth warned him: "You ain't stayin' in this league long, buddy. You gotta be able to hit to stick up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lip | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...corporation won a continued open shop, Chrysler will continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler's 58,000 workers, dropped to 5?, got 3? (plus additional raises for 5,000 in special classifications). Total annual wage increase: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble Over | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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