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...only to find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth's huge passenger vessels...
...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...
...Hampshire's speed gave the Crimson most of its difficulties, as the Wildcat midfielders continually broke around the varsity defense for extra man plays. In such situations, both midfielders and attackers combined to outnumber the goalie and his defense...
...broken ribs during the mauling, but he recovered quickly enough. He was used to beatings. It was a long series of beatings that had put Adolph ("Ad") Wolgast into the psychopathic ward of California's Stockton State Hospital in the first place. For eleven years the "Michigan Wildcat" had held his own in the savage battles of the pre-World War I prize ring. He had slugged and butted and cuffed his way to the lightweight championship of the world, and he had his brains unhinged in the process. A small-town scrapper from Cadillac, Mich., Ad Wolgast took...