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...rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things had been going on for 13 days. The reason: a wildcat strike of 19,000 dockers who still scorned the come-back-to-work talk of Transport and General Workers' Union General Secretary Arthur Deakin and his union straw bosses...
That was no sudden, theoretician's conclusion. Big Jim had come up through the brawling competition of the wildcat oilfields; his roots were deep in Pennsylvania history. One of his ancestors was a member of William Penn's Council. His grandfather was one of the first to strike oil in western Pennsylvania...
Only Chrysler was out of step. It furnished a prime example of how the profits of the industry-with a break-even point well above that of prewar-might melt if production had to be trimmed. Chrysler, nipped by shortages and wildcat strikes, reported a gross of $336,519,790, up only 6% from last year's first quarter. But its net profit was down 30% to $14.9 million...
...Five Wildcat errors plus the fact that two pitchers gave up seven timely walks between them set up six Crimson tallies. Clay whiffed ten and didn't walk...
...Maddux' lacrossemen had pretty much of a holiday up in Durham, N. H., as they flattened a game crew of New Hampshire Wildcats by a 10 to 1 count. The game was not nearly so rough as the Varsity expected; on the contrary, many of the Wildcat players spent much of the game questioning Crimson men on the fine points of the game...