Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corporation of London workers-market and street cleaners, rubbish collectors, gravediggers. At 7 o'clock one evening the twin bascules* of Tower Bridge went up, but not because a Thames ship tooted for passage through. The 70 men who operate the drawbridge in shifts had also joined the wildcat sympathy strike over George Turner's three hooks...
...compensation for pay lost by wildcat strikes...
Last week the Labor Government wiggled out from under its worst labor scare yet. A wildcat strike of about 500 London truck drivers had mushroomed into a walkout of about 40,000 sympathizers and threatened to spread disastrously through the country. The Government got the strike ended in its eleventh day, but it was severely clawed by the wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed...
This top-snow, along with the two and a half feet already built up should make wildcat, the Little Head Wall, and the Sherman trail a snow bunnies' delight...
...with Wildcats. Labor was only the most immediate of the tremendous problems facing Bermúdez. Pemex had fallen far behind on distributing its oil, and in discovering and developing new fields. On distribution, Bermúdez was hamstrung by the sad state of Mexican railways, but he had schemes to overcome that disability. One top-priority project: an $8,000,000 pipeline to bring natural gas from Poza Rica on the Gulf to Mexico City's industries and households. He also hopes to develop new fields that will give Mexico oil for at least 50 years to come...