Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, after 16 weeks of sporadic violence, half of the Bell Aircraft Corps.'s 3,000 workers were still holding out for a 15?-an-hour wage hike, $100-a-month noncontributory pensions and other benefits which the company estimated at an overall 62½?-an-hour increase. Trying out a new tactic, striking members of the United Auto Workers Local 501 observed Ladies' Day on the picket lines. Helmeted, club-swinging strikers' wives attacked three Bell engineers who tried to pass through. Deputy sheriffs, clubs at the ready, promptly arrested a handful of the women, then...
...Missouri, officials of the Missouri Pacific and its striking engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors still stared at one another in stony silence. Since the railway unions called out their workers three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 19), both sides had steadfastly refused to yield an inch. During that time, MoPac had lost more than $12 million in revenue. Most of its customers were being taken care of by trucks, buses and competing rail lines. But in Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because...
...Korea, China and the Philippines. Next day, both houses approved the final appropriation of $4,852,380,000 for the second year of the European Recovery Program, $45 million for economic assistance to Greece and Turkey and $912,500,000 for U.S. occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World War II: $20 billion". Former enemies Italy, Germany...
There were still some details to complete before MAP supplies started flowing abroad. Congress had yet to appropriate the money which it had authorized. The North Atlantic defense council had to approve its integrated defense plan and each nation had to sign agreements promising not to sell or transfer MAP arms without U.S. permission. MAP did not even have a director-ex-Ambassador James Bruce had not yet been officially nominated by the President. But MAP planners hoped to ship the first materiel by year's end or, with luck, by Thanksgiving...
...governments of the Western diplomats gathered at Moscow's Spasso House had not arrived at any clear, coordinated policy on whether to recognize Red China. The U.S. was still waiting "for the dust to settle...