Word: three-day
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...purpose behind it too-it is the very day that the U.M.W. had been ordered to appear in Washington's district court to answer General Counsel Robert Denham of the National Labor Relations Board, who wants a court injunction against John L.'s three-day week...
...soft-coal miners who, in their eagerness for a full strike or a new mine contract, were mutinying against him (TIME, Jan. 30). It also gave Big John a chance to talk business in the climate he likes best. After seven months of his production-throttling three-day week, Lewis had equalized his bargaining position. That is, he had whittled the nation's coal pile down to a precarious 27 days' supply...
...shall enter taverns]" began Oxford's 14th Century rule designed "to further the honest pursuit of studies and to restrain the arrogance of those in whom the energies of their stomachs exceed those of their minds." Since 1355, when carousing Oxonians at the Swyndle-stock Tavern precipitated a three-day riot by hitting their host on the head with a beer tankard, it had been as scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted by the demands of a changing world...
...Battleground" is the story of an airborne unit at Bastogne, during the German winter counter-offensive of 1944. This is a singularly unheroic unit as movie fighters go, preoccupied not with the Tradition of the Service or the Call of Duty, but with frozen feet, interminable K-rations, and three-day passes to Paris. The unit is trapped, partly through its own inexperience. It fights against an intelligent, non-fanatic enemy it often cannot see Its men die quietly and terribly with a minimum of dissertation on the evils of war, or the girls they have left behind...
After 17 months of reserved-seat showings at a $2.40 top in Manhattan, Hamlet played a three-day booking last week in 55 New York City neighborhood theaters. Some exhibitors nervously double-billed it with a Lionel Hampton "musical fea-turette." But though prices were advanced (90? to $1.20), the results were boffo: standing room only, bigger popcorn sales and a whopping $300,000 gross. Total U.S. receipts...