Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer ended negotiations which had been going on for almost 100 days. Reuther happily accepted. By all indications, so would Ford workers when they voted on the proposal. By winning peace, Ford had won a lead in his increasingly competitive industry. By winning the contract, Reuther had gained a weapon to use against Chrysler...
Guns & Dynamite. The trouble reached to other rebellious patches of John L. Lewis' empire as picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
Roughshod. In Chicago, Fred Haver-kate formally charged George Widdes with assault with a deadly weapon: "One pair of oxford shoes, size eight, attached to the defendant's right and left feet...
...Cornell's greatest weapon is its speed. Right halfback Frank Miller spends his Springs running the 100 and the 220 yard dashes for the track team, and the other members of the backfield could probably do the same given the inclination...
...greater part of our young people have no jobs at all, and walk the streets in search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams of full employment smashed. To the ever-louder demands of our youth for jobs, all Wall St. men can answer is "Join the Army...