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Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. had $348 million in orders, expected to take two years to fill them. But Convair, strikebound for some three months during the year, reported a deficit of $1.8 million for the first nine months after applying a carryback tax credit of $4 million. Also losing money was Republic Aviation Corp., which had 26 firm orders for its Rainbow but did not expect to start deliveries until late...
Opposition Party. In Denver, Mrs. Julia Peterson, arrested for throwing stones through windows of the strikebound May Co. department store, denied that she had anything to do with the strike, explained: "I'm just against Colorado and everything and everybody...
...might have reflected on other signs of Republican stamina-the stone walls and rail fences marking off private property, the small-town centers of muscular little businesses, the web of great railroads, the cities of big and busy mills. True, Pittsburgh, sprawling to the westward, was disorderly, recently strikebound, and Democratic-controlled. But Pittsburgh was neatly fenced off by a gerrymander. In 1943 Ed Martin had signed the gerrymandering bill which had cut down Pittsburgh's Democratic influence. Ed had remarked: "It's just the good old American way. When we Republicans were in the minority we bellyached...
...days, he might have been consumed by fire from heaven. Last week, in front of Kansas City's strikebound Elko Photo Products Co., a 24-year-old A.F.L. cabdriver named Harvey Warner paid the penalty for modern blasphemy. Arm in arm with striking A.F.L. women workers, Penitent Warner paraded his shame for two eight-hour shifts, draped in an accusing sign: "I am a heel. I crossed a picket line...
...Schwellenbach's pleas for seizure of the strikebound J. I. Case Co. and Allis-Chalmers Corp. were answered this week with a flat White House refusal...