Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...
...there was also a second objective: to stop wildcat strikes. Said N.F.T.W.'s President Joseph A. Beirne: "It is absolutely necessary that the industry's unions always be aware of their two-fold responsibility to the public as well as their members...
...after five years of secretive, studious preparation, Raffles purchased from Johore's Sultan the rights of "protection" over Singapore island. When the news reached London, months later, the East India Company directors were outraged; they had already lost more money than they could afford in such wildcat schemes of trade expansion. But while they debated what to do, the new city of Singapore sprang almost overnight into what Raffles described as "the emporium and pride of the East." Within a year "it was a common sight to count 20 vessels at one time in the harbor"; nine years later...
...diplomatic furor which blazed up with the flyers' death last month raged on. A ban by A.F.L. longshoremen on ships loading UNRRA supplies for Yugoslavia swelled from an impromptu wildcat walkout to an official statement of union policy. Cried the longshoremen's Joe Ryan: "None of those ships will be loaded until proper action is taken against those who are responsible for shooting down our planes." Veterans' posts, Congressmen, many a fierce U.S. citizen chimed...
Throughout the country there was a notable increase in strikes unauthorized by union leadership. One wildcat strike completely tied up milk deliveries in London. Looming on the Socialist horizon was the inescapable problem: when the unions' employer is their "own" Government, do union leaders owe first loyalty to the Government or to their membership...