Word: wildcatted
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...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...
Threat or Reality? Since a general railroad strike is intolerable, no one seriously envisioned one. But the threat of wildcat strikes is real...
...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...
...Older Wildcat fighter planes, with an effective range of 400 miles, were sound defensive ships but could not give bombers protection for attacks on major Jap bases. The Corsair's 70O-mile range changed that picture, made possible the knockout and capture of vital Munda; Fighter 124 became the first U.S. squadron to use the landing strip there...
...Wildcat (Grumman F4F), to which Under Secretary Forrestal of the Navy referred when he said "In my opinion Grumman saved Guadalcanal." Powered by a 1,200-h.p. engine, the Wildcat is still regarded as better than anything the Jap has, is still being manufactured...