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Many sea passengers were suddenly confronted with expensive excess-baggage fees on the planes. Far more tragically stranded were hundreds of outward-bound British emigrants, many of whom had sold all they possessed and spent a futile fortnight fighting their way across a strikebound country only to come to a full stop at the gateway. Short of funds in the emergency, many signed on at the Labor Exchange for temporary jobs...
With all of London's twelve daily and ten Sunday papers strikebound for the third week, Britons read everything from the High-way Code to almanacs and comic books. Copies of such provincial papers as the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post got premium prices. To help tell of Churchill's resignation (see FOREIGN NEWS), biggest British story of the year, thousands of copies of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Des Moines Register and even Long Island's Newsday were flown to London...
Marathon. In Barren Hill, Pa., caught in a stranger's closet, Burglary Suspect Benjamin Waites said that he "was running away from the stevedores," failed to explain how he happened to be 15 miles from Philadelphia's strikebound waterfront...
...Like giant Bethlehem (off 77% to $5.3 million), other steel companies showed the drastic effects of 28 strikebound days in the second quarter. National Steel's earnings were cut in half to $6.8 million; Sharon lost $430,280 v. a 1951 profit of $2.8 million; Follansbee's net dropped from...
When Gossard was strikebound last summer and the garment workers could not come to terms with President Lee Varley, who has now retired, it was Savard who stepped in and settled the trouble. The strike, coupled with reduced promotional activities, had clipped Gossard's profit 82% last year. When Savard moved into his new job last week, a bunch of roses from the garment workers' union was on his desk. Said Savard: "Our competitors ran while we stood still, but now we're going...