Word: three
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
Smith proposed in effect that the U.S. send troops to occupy the prosperous 235-mile-long island. Strategically the most important piece of real estate still outside Western democracy's Pacific Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...
...with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only a total of 160 days in 1949. They had lost some...
They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
...miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...