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...Work. For seven days A.F.L. teamsters had refused to drive truckloads of parts through the foremen's lines. So the company brought them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep...
...finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union, whose men man the boats. And until the price for haddock and other fish was met, the unionized "lumpers" who unload the boats would not work...
...rounded up 100 tugs and towed the caissons and ships to Omaha Beach so smoothly that supply ships were unloading within the man-made harbor on D-day plus 12. At the same time, as a precaution, Moran had towed barges loaded with supplies from New York to France. Thus when a storm battered the harbors, the barges were able to unload directly on the beaches...
...watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
...month ago, Jordan, so the tale went, decided his holdings in cotton futures were too big. He began to liquidate cautiously. Apparently few got wind of it until last week. When the news got out, smaller speculators began to unload, touched off the break. As prices crashed, in spot cotton as well as in futures, Jordan himself was caught in the avalanche and was forced to unload fast. The exchanges, in turn, were forced to close to give dog-tired clerks a chance to catch...