Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of landlubbers had to contend with nature, too; the eastern slope of the Rockies, usually as dry as a bowl of corn flakes during a milk strike, was wet down by torrential rains. Streets were flooded, cows marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
...Senate floor tempers were better restrained, although the big issue last week was one to strike fire and doubtless would before the argument was over. The Senate had squared off for the showdown debate on repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...Fist of His Power." What little chance the Administration had of putting over its bill (reenactment of the Wagner Act with a little stiffening) was knocked galley west when John L. Lewis called his coal strike (see below). Propositions for labor bills were sticking out of virtually every other Senator's pocket. But there was not enough support for any one proposition to put it over...
...journalism four years ago, was handed the hottest issue of his newspaper career. Employees of the Flora Municipal Light & Water System joined the A.F.L. Electrical Workers, and asked the City Council to recognize them as a union for collective bargaining. When the council refused, 19 employees went on strike. The Sentinel declared itself editorially neutral in the dispute, promised to report "both sides" in its news columns...
...Crowder began stopping him on the street and hinting at reprisals (e.g., advertising cancellations) if he did not "lay off"; his telephone rang with anonymous threats. Advertisers organized a boycott of the Sentinel; 100 subscriptions were canceled. Only then did the Sentinel take a firm stand in the strike. Wrote angry Editor Crowder: "The City Council is bucking the line of human progress at the expense of all the people . . ." To offset the canceled subscriptions, 300 C.I.O. and A.F.L. union members marched in a body to the Sentinel office and signed...