Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington stuck closely to one surefire issue-the steel strike. (The U.A.W. has given $1,000,000 to help the steel strikers.) Said Symington: "There was no national emergency with hundreds of thousands of people out of work, eating out of their savings, worrying about their future. The national emergency came after the great corporations had liquidated their inventories." Symington was greeted with warm applause...
Mitscher launched his first strike at 0540, Oct. 25; during the day Task Force 38 planes made 527 sorties, sank three carriers and a destroyer and crippled a fourth carrier. U.S. surface ships and submarines sank the crippled carrier, a light cruiser and a destroyer. But Bull Halsey was not around for the slaughter; for hours he had been getting urgent queries as to his whereabouts, desperate requests for help off Samar. At 1055 Halsey gave in to the pressure, ordered a large part of his force to turn back south -and went with them. By the time...
...chemical structure when red light hits it. As long as the red light lasts, the new structure persists. When the light dies, the pigment begins slowly to change back to its original state, a process that takes roughly twelve hours. Thus, when the red rays in the morning sun strike a leaf, the light-sensitive pigment changes into its new state and stays that way until sundown. This tells the plant, in the chemical language to which it responds, how long the day is and therefore what the season...
...cumulative effect of the longest nationwide steel strike in history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) cut deep into U.S. industry. With stockpiles reduced sharply, dozens of industries are slowing down and beginning to lay off. Auto, appliance, farm-equipment, machinery makers are all tightening their belts, and they face still more trouble before the economy is rolling at full speed again. The mills will need four to six weeks to get back to 90% of capacity, at least three months to fill the empty pipelines...
...will take 60 to 90 days of renewed steel production before normal deliveries are resumed. Says Robert V. Tishman, executive vice president of Tishman Realty & Construction Co.: "With very few exceptions, all construction jobs in the initial stages, where steel is a big factor, have been stopped." The strike slowed construction of vital defense projects, such as the Air Force's new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launching base at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, threatened Atlas ICBM deliveries. Military projects need steel so badly that the Commerce Department has notified steelmakers that top priority must be given...