Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from tear gas and Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre, or outside because of pickpocketed credentials), all-purpose bail-bond credit card (if arrested), air mattress (in event of prolonged incarceration or inability to return...
French workers, besides splurging on vacations at a rate unprecedented in a holiday-happy country, spent enough of their higher wages to lift July retail sales 10% above the 1967 level. Strike-depleted inventories have shrunk so low that many industries expect a manufacturing boom in the fall. Says Finance Minister François-Xavier Ortoli: "The outlook is better than we could have ex pected. The economy is righting itself...
...Lycopersicon esculentum. Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a disaster. Just when the bumper crop was ready to be picked from California to New Jersey, the Campbell Soup Co. found itself saddled with a strike...
...committee," representing the firm's unions, made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play one union against another." By contrast, management views the current strike as a harbinger of a united labor force that would be able, as Campbell Vice President William E. Harwick puts it, "to turn us on and off" on a company-wide basis...
...tomatoes had spoiled in the field, and many were being plowed under. The company estimated that the ruin could reach 80% within the next two weeks. Campbell's 250 contract farmers in southern New Jersey, a group of whom has sued two unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to stop the shutdown. The biggest losers...