Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BLACKMAIL PICKETING. "Take a company in the average American town-your town. A union official comes into the office, presents the company with a proposed labor contract and demands that the company either sign or be picketed. The company refuses because its employees don't want to join that union . . . Now, what happens? The union official carries out the threat and puts a picket line outside the plant, to drive away customers, to cut off deliveries. In short, to force the employees into a union they do not want. I want that sort of thing stopped. So does America...
SECONDARY BOYCOTT. "Take another company-let us say a furniture manufacturer. Instead of picketing the furniture plant itself [the union officials] picket the stores which sell the furniture this plant manufactures ... to make the stores bring pressure on the furniture plant. How can anyone justify this kind of pressure against stores which are not involved in any dispute...
...lightning. Boy, do I remember that lightning. I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it. I remember falling through hail, and that worried me; I was afraid the hail would tear the chute. Sometimes I was falling through heavy water-I'd take a breath and breathe in a mouthful of water. Sometimes I had the sensation I was looping the chute. I was blown up and down as much as 6,000 feet at a time. It went on for a long time, like being on a very fast elevator, with strong blasts of compressed air hitting...
...statement was read to reporters as he emerged from a closed-door session with 45 U.S. Governors, meeting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout bomb shelters, since a nationwide system of private shelters would blunt the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail, would save millions of lives and ensure the survival of the U.S. itself in case of nuclear attack...
...first for-sale version of the house, one of two now abuilding, sold to an about-to-retire Army major who once studied radiation effects, broke off negotiations on another house when he heard of Hoerner's shelter, said: "That's it. I'll take...