Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
...strike of Buenos Aires newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21) was no nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
Other problems pressed upon the President. The bottom had dropped out of the Buenos Aires stock market. During the week, persistent selling wiped out as much as 36% of the values of blue-chip stocks. Frantic brokers, encouraged by the government, called a one-day strike in an attempt to stave off the collapse. Next day the market sagged worse than ever...
...into executive jobs. Such benevolent maternalism allowed her to run an open shop for years. When the union arrived in 1946, it was a conservative union of which Mrs. Kerr could approve. The A.F. of L.'s Glass Bottle Blowers' Association hasn't had a major strike in 58 years...
...nothing wears such a high polish that readers may scarcely realize it is essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round of drinks: "I have an old beat-up legman...