Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several thousand Soviet-directed railway police yielded control of west Berlin railway stations to west Berlin police last night on order of the United States, Britain, and France. Russia protected the three-power action, which came on the fourth day of a fierce strike against the Soviet-controlled railway and elevated systems...
...Strike Call...
Finkelstein was walking with Miss Gans on the Concord Avenue side of the Observatory grounds when the three youths stopped them and threatened to strike Finkelstein with a flashlight if he did not hand over his valuables...
...telephone call from Galloway Calhoun, imperial potentate of the Shrine, who was stranded in Hawaii by Harry Bridges' waterfront strike, and wanted Shriner Truman to do something. Secretary Matt Connelly told him there was nothing the President could...
Nobody expected a pickup soon. In spite of the Ford strike, new cars were rolling out of Detroit at a rate of more than 5,000,000 a year. Some new car dealers were feeling a sag in their own sales (Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week reported a $5.8 million loss in the first quarter). They were once more offering bigger trade-in allowances than they could get for the used cars. By summer's end, some of 1949's new cars would be showing up on used-car lots, to add to the glut. Both...