Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From conditions that gave the word "sweat shop" to the language, it has won the most complete welfare program in the U.S. From a snarl of crafts and nationalities, from a rank & file in which women (considered unreliable by organized labor) outnumber men three to one, it has built one of the nation's strongest industrial unions. From chaotic conditions, where there was a strike with every season, it has brought order. It has had no major strike in 15 years...
...must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change and a hundred employers find themselves back at the cutting table...
More squad cars and more cops hurried up. They began firing pistols and carbines. Craig scuttled around inside the house like a caged animal, firing back in vicious bursts-now from the front of the house, now from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women screamed, bullets hummed and a reckless crowd of 10,000 people began jamming into the street. New police reinforcements arrived, among them the force's top brass. Fire trucks rumbled into the street and turned huge searchlights on Craig's bullet-riddled fortress...
...victory had its grim side. Except for a few old men & women, there were no inhabitants left in the region: the Reds had taken all able-bodied men & women with them. In Krystallopigi, 88-year-old Vassilis Claras explained: "The day before the government army came, the Communists gave us orders to cross into Albania, because the Monarcho-Fascists would kill us. I told them I was an old man and didn't care whether I lived or died-so I stayed...
British men, he noted, no longer take off their hats as they walk by London's Cenotaph (monument to Britain's war dead), or for the passing of a funeral or the flag. Women no longer bow when they meet; autoists no longer defer to skittish horses and their nervous riders on their way to Hyde Park's Rotten Row. Women stand in buses and trains while men and boys sit in comfort (a form of rudeness common even in non-Socialist communities...