Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled unsteadily toward his companion with a wordless appeal in his eyes, obviously ill. Plagued for years with diabetes, he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the first of four that were to strike him in 24 hours. This week Premier Duplessis was dead...
Going into the ninth, the Dodgers' Koufax knew he had to fan the side. Giant Ed Bressoud was strike-out No. 16. Danny O'Connell was No. 17. Finally, swinging haplessly, Pitcher Jack Sanford was the big No. 18, and Koufax had broken the league record of 17 strikeouts set by the Cardinals' Dizzy Dean in 1933, tied the major-league mark set by Cleveland's Fireballer Bob Feller in 1938. To cap his performance, Koufax singled in the rally that won the game...
...WORKERS. Most can hold out another month without pain. Said Cleveland Banker Robert Mazanek: "The steelworkers' way of life today includes a strike every couple of years, and they save for it." Many strikers own houses, are borrowing against them instead of carving into their savings. In some steel towns, only 25% of the strikers applied for free surplus food, and only half of those bothered to pick up their allotments. But other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers...
...PUBLIC. No previous postwar steel shutdown has been met with such public apathy. But there are warnings that may soon jolt that apathy. Said Chief Economist Beryl W. Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "By Oct. 1, the strike will be a significant depressant on business. If both sides do not reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women...
INDUSTRY. There are only spot shortages. Steel warehouses still have about 3,000,000 tons-just 700,000 tons less than when the strike began-are selling off 175,000 tons a week. The American Steel Warehouse Association checked 20 warehouses last week, found no sweeping nationwide increase in demand. The building industry will start running out of steel in September; so will makers of appliances, farm machinery, ships. Steelmakers have told Cincinnati toolmakers that even if peace comes soon they cannot expect deliveries for three or four months-so long is the waiting list of top-priority defense contractors...