Word: strikebound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait for the promised elections, they demanded satisfaction of other grievances immediately. So did the mobs in the streets: in East Pakistan, two weeks of vigilante murders, mostly of lower officials in the Ayub regime, cost more than 200 lives, and in the West hundreds of factories were strikebound by workers demanding better wages...
...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...
...short months ago is fast gathering ominous substance. Automakers have joined the parade of summer price increases that now reach across the economy from food to steel, from appliances to plastics. General Motors raised the average price of its 1968 autos by $110, or 3.6% above the 1967 level. Strikebound Ford lifted its car prices by $114 (3.9%), Chrysler by $133 (4.6%). Inventory liquidation by businessmen, one of the principal drags on the economy this year, is dwindling, and housing and industrial production are up. "A business acceleration is no longer a forecast," said Chairman Gardner Ackley of the White...
...some 7,000,000 would-be passengers were grounded, delayed or forced to revise their plans. Such frustration fell most burdensomely on 16,000 TWA travelers temporarily stranded in Europe. The only strikebound line that flies across the Atlantic, TWA loaded other airlines with its strandees-a move that added $1,000,000 a day to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit. Even so, some 1,500 Americans were still looking for a way home last week, including 250 at Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches...
...most cases were abroad on vacation and found themselves stranded in Europe, unable to get home to the U.S. TWA helped out by offering them interest-free loans and by asking its overseas employees to open their homes to strandees. U.S. consulates certified that the travelers were strikebound in case bosses doubted them. Airlines and travel agents worked out intricate, substitute passages that sometimes involved taking a bus from one country to another in order to pick up a U.S.-bound flight...