Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penetrates a stately New England mansion to the tempestuous life within. There, out of a diseased respect for respectability, an aristocratic matron (Mildred Dunnock) has lived with her husband and his spitfire stable-girl mistress (Tamara Geva). There, after the husband dies and leaves half the house to the wildcat, the widow lives on with her still. The spitfire's son, the widow's son, her son's son and a governess also inhabit the house where, between heart attacks and thunderstorms, the tying of children to chairs and the choking of adults on sofas, everyone dresses...
Concert-touring through Texas, the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, tempted by talk of gushers and wildcat drilling offers, shelled out some money and waited for the oil to pour in. If the well pays off, said she, it will be named Nicky, after her six-year-old son. "If it's dry, so what? I've given plenty of unsuccessful auditions in my life...
...history last week: it offered a $25 million-a-year (10?-15?-an-hour) cost-of-living wage increase to 120,000 workers, despite its three-year contract with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. which freezes wages until July 1, 1951. (The increase had not come without prodding by the union; wildcat strikers, disgruntled over the rise in the cost of living, had thrown 13,000 out of work.) In the fast tightening labor market, Chrysler's new pay scale will help the company in bidding for new workers, since its average hourly wage will be above Ford...
However, the Local had no permission from the International Guild to stage the strike. Feeling that this wildcat strike was a bluff, the company refused to arbitrate; the president and secretary-treasurer of the Local returned to work two days later...
...Corp. into putting up a gas station for him. He soon had a second. He made the two pay $1,000 a month. But he burned for great wealth; though the Depression was at its deepest and oil was down to 10? a barrel, he began gambling in wildcat drilling ventures. He sank a dry hole, sold one of his service stations, and sank another...