Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black v. Blue, This mimic action was only a local prelude to the Navy's main maneuver. At midnight, Feb. 9, Admiral Clark was to deploy his Scouting Force off the California coast in an attempt to strike through the Navy's first-line defense, the Battle Force. Under every warlike condition except actual fire, he was allowed seven days to develop and execute his strategy...
...Navy's mind, the "Black" fleet of Problem No. 14 that sweeps east this week from Hawaii to the mainland, represents no fleet but Japan's. U. S. sea-dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson...
Last week a large section of the automotive industry sighed with relief at the end of a situation which had threatened to disrupt its whole vast production line. In Detroit the week-old strike of Briggs Manufacturing Co.'s 6,000 employes (TIME, Feb. 6) was definitely broken, with some 4,000 old and new workers bringing production rapidly back to normal...
...shut down its assembly plants throughout the U. S. and in Windsor, Canada. Briggs makes bodies and stampings for several other motor companies and for Murray Corp. (bodies) which had to shut down. Some 7,650 accessory companies likewise supply parts & materials to Briggs' customers. Had the strike continued, the production of all these companies might have been seriously diminished, if not in some cases suspended...
...American Tobacco Co., maker of Lucky Strike, one of the four big 15? brands, paid its regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 but omitted the usual $1 extra dividend. Wall Street heard that President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco was planning to cut prices below the $6 per 1,000 at which Luckies now wholesale, has sworn to run 10? cigarets out of business if he has to make them himself...