Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five months, Prime Minister Sidney G. Holland, leader of the New Zealand National (Conservative) Party, bitterly fought the Communist-led Waterside Workers Union, whose repeated strikes tied up the country's vital export trade. Invoking wartime emergency regulations, Holland declared the union illegal, sponsored a rival union, on rare occasions denied the dockers the right of assembly, free speech or publication. When the striking dockers finally gave in (TIME, July 16), Holland decided that New Zealand should have an opportunity to say it approved of his tough methods. He called for a general election...
...fortnight ago, it became known that the old submarine Ulua was being towed to a New England port for use in underwater explosion tests. The Ulua is a vital part of Captain Rickover's project. She was to be fitted with a dummy atomic engine, sent underwater without crew, and depth-charged to see how much shock an atomic engine can stand. The information will be used to modify and correct the full-scale atomic submarine that the Electric Boat Co. has been ordered to build...
...Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers was smelted out of the C.I.O. last year for following the Communist Party line. This week the I.U.M.M.S.W. pulled 58,000 workers off the job in more than 50 mines, mills and other plants in 25 states, and slowed U.S. production of defense-vital copper to a trickle. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the strike would "drastically curtail" production of tanks, guns and planes. Present wages of the union's men range from $1.31 to $1.62 an hour. Union demand: a general wage increase of 20? an hour, plus pension and other benefits...
...admit it, the movies have had to take up arms against a sea of troubles. Recovered from the first shock but still haunted by the specter of TV, beset by mounting production costs, harried by a falling box office, Hollywood is also facing an unexpected shortage in its most vital commodity of all-the mysterious attraction that everybody recognizes but no one has ever .been able to label more accurately than glamor, or oomph...
...biggest news in Freeport's strike was the fact that it will soon put the U.S., supplier of 50% of the world's sulphur, in a position to whip one of the world's most critical shortages. Sulphur, vital to the production of everything from explosives and steel to newsprint and rayon, is as essential to industry as salt is to food. While the U.S. is now producing 6,000,000 tons a year, the world demand is now running 1,000,000 tons a year ahead of the total world supply of 11,700,000 tons...