Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star is owned by more than 150 Starmen, who in 1926 borrowed heavily to buy it from Nelson's estate. Some of them draw up to $50,000 a year in dividends. Roy Roberts' stock is estimated at close to $1,000,000; his salary...
Just before 9 o'clock one morning last week, 600 pickets blocked the doors of the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Raucous and cocky, they greeted brokers and clerks with jeers, catcalls and boos. Girls who went into the building entered into a bedlam of epithets such as "stinking tomato" and "scab bitch." Wall Street wondered what had happened: the pickets did not seem to be the white-collar clerks, runners and telephone operators of the A.F.L. United Financial Employes, who had called a strike at the exchanges. Most of them weren...
Next day, 500 policemen patrolled the block around the Stock Exchange and there was no more trouble. The American Civil Liberties Union deplored the "lie-down," saying: "By completely denying the right of access to and from the ... Stock Exchange, the pickets abused their lawful right to picket." But it also found "little or no justification for the club-wielding tactics of the police...
...Squad. Many a newly unionized financial worker worriedly wondered what he had got himself into. The union, apparently as untainted by Communist influences as its ally, the Seafarers, was the one-man creation of bespectacled M. David Keefe, onetime Stock Exchange employee. Dave Keefe had started as a $15-a-week page boy; after 13 years he had worked himself up to $37. He organized the union in 1942, saw it almost fall apart after he joined the Seabees. He pulled it together again after war's end and, boasting a membership of 5,000, held contracts with both...
When the contracts came up for renewal, he demanded a union shop, a $9-a-week raise for employees making less than $40, and $15 for those making more. The exchanges refused the union shop, but offered pay boosts of $3 to $5 from the Stock Exchange and a one-year 10% cost-of-living bonus from the Curb...