Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within four days, 250,000 had left the pits. This week the whole 400,000 of them were out on a ten-day vacation authorized by last year's Krug-Lewis agreement...
...separately but on parallel tracks, opened their legal campaign. There was ample precedent for such tactics. All important laws get their court tests, and labor laws get the most stringent tests of all. In 1936, management blasted away at the Wagner Act with 83 test suits in the first ten months...
...days later Assistant Secretary of State John Peurifoy announced that ten State Department Civil Service employees had been fired for security reasons-"in the interest of the U.S." This week State, War and Navy Departments and the Atomic Energy Commission asked Congress for permanent authority to fire any employee "in the interest of national security." Congress would no doubt grant it. But the Senators still needed convincing. The most they would give George Marshall for his OIC was an extra...
Another point for the cynics was that no real progress had been made in its most important project: atomic control. Still another: Russia had used the lethal veto ten times to block action in the Security Council...
...goes. Ten State Department employees have been discharged as "bad security risks." The Department's press office said, "This does not necessarily concern the loyalty of the individuals, but may refer to his discretion or the company he keeps." A few days later, a high U. S. court rules against proceeding with a trial of the score of Americans indicted during the war as pre-fascist seditionists, claiming it would be a travesty on justice...