Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoot to kill!" was the staccato order to Berlin police last week to break a streetcar & bus strike which had given millions of Berliners healthy exercise for four days...
Editor Nicole was promptly arrested and jailed. Swiss labor organizations threatened a general strike, then gave this up for a demonstration at the funeral of the victims of the ''Massacre of Plainpalais." At the week's end it seemed unlikely that the public would ever know who was responsible for the order to fire. A military investigation was ordered, soft pedaled. Said Giuseppe Motto, President of Switzerland and native of the country's one Italian canton...
...Bustling little Congressman-reject Fiorello Henry La Guardia (N. Y.) warned the Postmaster General that he would sponsor a strike of Avco pilots if Cord should get control...
...Australian Government was sending squads of engineers last week to build four landing fields at 100 mi. intervals between Alice Springs and The Granites. In The Granites, a wild, desolate territory, infested by savage blacks and savage insects, diggers had struck gold. Six expeditions were pushing toward the strike by truck, tractor, horseback, camel and by airplane. Every available ship was in demand to rush in food & water, rush out yellow dust...
...more than 5% of the time. He admits: "I do not think there is anything funny about a Baldwin locomotive." Chief tenet of Adman Collins' advertising creed is honesty. He deplores the blasts of exaggeration which have undermined buyers' minds with skepticism. Now 34. he proposes to strike out for himself as Kenneth Collins, Inc. Graduated by the University of Washington in 1919, he declined a Rhodes scholarship, taught freshman composition at the University of Idaho for a year, then almost entered the Episcopal ministry. Instead he took an M.A. degree at Harvard. There is no truth...