Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOTHING TO DO WITH HAMLET. Instead it is the basic issue of principle which has brought about the longest national steel strike in U.S. history and which last week caused the President of the U.S. to do some head-bumping. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...days later, the President of the U.S. all but fulfilled the steelworker's wish by summoning the top men on both sides of the steel strike to the White House for head-banging sessions. "I am getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse," Ike told his press conference, and "so are the American people...
...Street." Some kind of presidential intervention in the strike was plainly necessary. It had dragged on into the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. The huge steel inventories piled up in warehouses when the strike began back in mid-July had dwindled so drastically that manufacturers were starting to schedule layoffs for lack of steel. A dozen appliance manufacturers warned that they would have to shut down completely by mid-October unless the strike ended...
...President gave no immediate sign of any action on the steel strike after his return to Washington late today...
There have been no steel negotiations since Tuesday night when top leaders in the industry and the United Steel Workers of America threw up their hands in despair of reaching a new contract agreement...