Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruth, of course, is gone via graduation, so passing is definitely not a Wildcat forte, even though polished Army returnee Bill Rowland is taking over at the pivot post. But the ground attack should continue to take up the slack...
...Ryan's gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has long been notorious for dock scandals: graft, extortion, kickbacks, loan-sharking, gambling, strong-arming, pilferage, gang warfare, wildcat strikes. Mild A.F.L. President William Green never did anything about it, but soon after George Meany succeeded Green last December, the A.F.L. Executive Council began to think of taking some action. Last week, after giving Ryan a chance to speak his piece, Meany announced that the council was not satisfied: it recommended that the upcoming A.F.L. convention suspend the I.L.A. from the federation...
There were plenty of things the old man could do. The President could order his army not to withdraw from any agreed "demilitarized zone," and might even launch a wildcat attack of his own. His men are on guard at all the prison camps except Camp Eight, where balking Chinese prisoners are kept; ROK guards might turn loose all North Korean prisoners who refuse repatriation. Rhee's delegate to the truce talks, Major General Choi Duk Shin, boycotted one session, and Rhee commended him for "high patriotism." General Choi told correspondents: "People ask me if we can fight alone...
...rich Williston Basin, a Shell Oil Co. wildcat crew last week brought in a well near Baker, Mont. that gushed oil at the rate of 4,253 barrels a day. It was the richest well yet drilled in the basin...
...jobs, and 24.8 in. shorter, partly by virtue of vertical steel strips replacing the usual horizontal bumpers. Its souped-up engine develops 250 h.p.† Oldsmobile's low-slung Starfire convertible has a panoramic windshield extending around and past the door opening. Buick's 50.4-in.-high Wildcat, of black fiber glass with a green leather seat, has front-wheel disk hubs which remain stationary while the wheels revolve, their airscoops cooling the front-wheel brakes. Pontiac showed off a streamlined version of a landau, with pink leather seats and ceiling lining and a carpet of black broadtail...