Word: walkout
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Great Britain's factories were threatened last week with shutdowns by the greatest coal strike since the general walkout of 1926. More than a tenth, possibly a seventh, of 710,000 miners were out. Their tempers were short, their attitude adamant, their position clear. They were in open conflict with Winston Churchill's Government...
...Walkout. Cullman has dabbled in stage doings since prepping at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he took part in French plays "which neither the cast nor the audience understood." At Yale, trying to become drama editor of the Yale Courant, he wangled an interview with Sarah Bernhardt. When he asked her, "Do your love affairs help you to understand the parts you are playing?" she walked...
...tall, blond arbitrator, Dean Young Berryman Smith, 54, of Columbia University, handed in a 2,000-word decision that should enable management in the future to speak in a voice raised at least one decibel above a whisper. Dean Smith was called to arbitrate an unauthorized C.I.O. walkout staged by Wright Aeronautical Corp. workers. Their grievance: they disliked a foundry assistant supervisor, Albert Knowles, and demanded that he be fired...
...from the two Long Island City plants meeting in New York's Queensboro Arena, turned down an immediate strike call, voted instead to abide by the law calling for a 30-day cooling-off period. Next day, the Johnsville strikers went back, with nothing to show for their walkout except four days' lost production on Corsair fighter planes for the Navy...
...wondered vaguely to what sort of rendezvous this dress rehearsal was leading. . . . The following morning the newspapers announced Mr. Lewis' call for the third walkout of the coal miners since the March 31 armistice...