Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...make dead certain of lasting industrial peace during war's duration? The Smith bill, the club which Congress had fashioned to keep labor in good order, had threatened before war came to bring on a labor blowup. Mr. Roosevelt now had another scheme. At his signal, Administration leaders quietly put the bill away in a closet. Not letting labor forget that the bill was still handy and could be broken out again at a moment's notice, the President suggested that labor and management get together, decide among themselves how to keep the peace...
...case, Ukraine rains had been torrential for almost a month, and detailed descriptions poured through Europe's gossip centers of "an avalanche of unstemmed water, floating wreckage and drowned men, trees, livestock, and houses down to the delta." Berlin said that German artillery had foiled the blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers made their hasty way across the Dnieper. In their mop-up the Germans...