Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparing to use the Taft-Hartley Act in the coal strike (see above), Taft-Hartley machinery was already at work on two other strike fronts: at the Oak Ridge atom plant, where a labor dispute threatened the heart of U.S. war strength; in the meat-packing industry, where a walkout of packinghouse workers had halved the nation's meat supply...
...Russian walkout was likely to be a great deal more than that. It had been planned, for Sokolovsky's parting message was carefully typed in advance. It heralded the final breakup of four-power administration in Germany, and presumably a long-expected Russian drive to push the Americans out of Berlin...
...dozen U.S. cities the International Typographical Union, A.F.L. had struck newspaper plants. Once, such a walkout by the linotype operators would have paralyzed the papers. But last week most of the strikebound dailies were on the stands, thanks to a new technique in printing and, chiefly, to its sponsor, Manhattan's small (total assets: $800,000) Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. Its Vari-Typer machines, glorified typewriters which automatically set straight right-hand margins, were being used by most of the strikebound papers to by-pass the linotypers. The biggest fault that readers found with the papers was that they...
...piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations hire standby musicians. He was also negotiating a new contract with the major U.S. radio networks, a process which involved the threat of a walkout by his musicians...
...Paul told a TIME correspondent that he could explain everything. When he was president of Thuringia, he said, the Russians had provided him with an "assistant" who put through Soviet policy in Paul's name. As for disrupting the Munich conference: "I was coerced to lead the walkout against my wishes." And his opposition to the Marshall Plan? "I am and always have been for the Marshall Plan. My name was affixed to the proclamation without my knowledge or consent...