Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German Remedies. Germany was feeling what might be called the dislocation of prosperity. Burgeoning industry has sucked the labor market dry, forcing up wages and prices; Hamburg's shipbuilding yards and North Hessian heavy industries are plagued by wildcat strikes. Sure to find jobs elsewhere, ten out of every 100 of West Germany's coal miners have left their underground jobs in the past six months. Result: a sharp cutback in coal production. One group of German steel mills was again forced to buy expensive U.S. coal to keep its busy blast furnaces going...
...Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when Dulles was traveling on horseback through the jungles of Central America. It turned out that Dulles on this ride had indeed used his Smith & Wesson, to kill a wildcat...
With the deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...
...week's end, as the Queen Elizabeth headed in from New York to face the fate of her great sister ship, the government tried to end the seamen's wildcat strike by voiding their exemption from military service. One frustrated passenger on the Queen Mary could only think of what his favorite hero would have done under the circumstances. "Captain Hornblower," huffed his creator, bestselling Novelist C. S. Forester, "would have shoved all the strikers in irons...
...Automakers rolled out their 4,000,000th automobile, the first time in history that so many cars had been produced so early in the year. Even though wildcat walkouts at Cadillac and at some Chevrolet plants trimmed G.M. production 12%, most assembly lines were back to normal...