Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howe has said that the Act has been used unconstitutionally in the past and that the Supreme Court, if it follows its precedents, will strike...
...strike of 2,000 AFL deck officers operating from Gulf and Atlantic coast ports, which threatened to tie up all shipping in the region, was postponed last night on the plea of government mediators. The strike had been called for midnight...
Alexander Knox has written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...
Last week, in a location at Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
...financial centers of the world last week, the gold fever spread like the blood-tingling news of a rich new strike. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange, the cheap stock of a Philippine gold-mining company, Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., was among the heaviest traded. Wall Street's Bache & Co. was busily selling unrefined gold (the only kind that can be legally held in the U.S.) at premium prices ($44 an ounce). In London, South African gold-mining stocks were ones eagerly bought in a falling market...