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Word: strike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divot Sirs: I am the spectator mentioned in TIME, June 19 under Sport, "Triple Tie." Craig Wood's ball did not strike me "flush on the temple." If it had I would not be here now. It struck me on the side of my head and took a "divot" requiring three stitches to close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...help finance its strike against Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (now in its seventh month), the American Newspaper Guild two months ago thought up a novel scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strike Babies | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: H. H. Treatment | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Coal: From 2,000,000 tons a week early in May production rose to 6,000,000 'cons at the end of the month, but coal freight shipments recovered to only 84% of the March level. After a few days of stocking up by utilities and other strike-hit consumers the after-strike boomlet fell off. Meanwhile, anthracite production slumped back into its customary stagnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: H. H. Treatment | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Chief issue in the big April-May coal strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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