Word: strikebound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the government tried to settle the dispute, some magazine publishers (daily newspapers were not affected) managed to get out token issues by makeshift methods. The New Statesman & Nation (TIME, Sept. 4), normally a comfortable 24 pages, squeaked out eight pages by photostated typewriting. The Economist, like many strikebound U.S. papers in the last few years (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947 et seq.), used Vari-Typing to produce a makeshift, 16-page issue for its 107th anniversary. It tartly warned the printers: "Union leaders would do well to observe that it is possible to get along without any compositors...
...West Coast, the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea, getting ready for Pacific duty, needed five motor-driven centrifugal pumps from New Jersey's strikebound Ingersoll-Rand Co. At noon one day last week, the Navy asked management and the union whether they couldn't get together long enough to deliver the pumps...
What made this runaway demand even more remarkable was the fact that 1950 production was 15% ahead of 1949's, even with Chrysler strikebound. This week the industry will turn out 1950's 2,000,000th vehicle, v. 1,667,000 at this time last year. General Motors, which turned out 870,167 cars and trucks in 1950-5. first quarter, v. 570,692 a year ago, was still so far behind demand last week that it put many of its plants on double-overtime Saturday shifts. Ford, which boosted production 45% in the first quarter...