Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Captain Bong, the other seven, all Marines, racked up their records in the Pacific. Tops with 26 each are veteran Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair), who disappeared after knocking down his last victim (TIME...
...with 19, is 28-year-old Lieut. Colonel John Lucian Smith Jr. (Wildcat) and No. 9, nosing out Beckham with 18, is Major Marion E. Carl (Wildcat...
...hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...
...other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wildcat...
...real wildcat strikes could be expected from another railroad quarter. The 1,100,000 members of the 15 non-operating railroad unions (maintenance men, etc.) were just about as mad. To their demand for a 20?-an-hour wage increase, another Railway Labor panel countered with an increase of 8? an hour. By last week the "non-ops" having negotiated for 13 weary months, had not yet got up their nerve for a strike vote, had agreed to resubmit demands to a new panel...