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...striped denim uniform of a subway trainman appeared in the Mayor's office of the City of New York early last Tuesday morning, before the regular business hours. Theodore Loos, president of the Motorman's Benevolent Association, announced that the men on the IND were going to stage a wildcat strike at 5 a.m. the next morning...
...Great Slave oil has long been only a tantalizing dream. No one had much encouragement until this year. Then Phillips Petroleum and Home Oil Co., which were exploring in the Peace River area far to the south where oil had already been found (see map), brought in three wildcat wells near Lesser Slave Lake in a previously untapped rock formation that was the same as that at Great Slave Lake. The discovery touched off Canada's biggest oil play since the great Leduc and Pembina oilfields were tapped...
...from other purposeful literary nightmares that professed to see the ghost of fascism on the American scene during the '30s is that West brought enough invention to one page for most novelists to spread thin over a book, and a style as lean and resourceful as a hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human nature...
...Colonel Loughlin, who calls himself a "bird colonel foot soldier," joined the 81st (Wildcat) Infantry Division in 1917, saw action a few weeks before the Armistice. He was retired. because of age (60) in 1942, later recalled to command a P.W. camp in Jackson, Miss, until he retired for good...
Leniency Undesirable. Thus fortified in their work, the new AVH men are methodically restoring the structure of the police state. Martial law applied to the factories has enabled them to curb strikes and send troublesome workers to the coal mines. Wildcat stoppages are being punished by fines, and January pay envelopes are lean. ("Anyone who was on strike in December, even for two days, will see the difference in his pay.") After a six-day "trial," Freedom Fighters Joszef Dudas, who led an attack on the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in October, and Janos Szabo, who led a stand against superior...