Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union's neck in and hold down its strong left wing (led by jut-jawed Director Herbert March of District 1), all at the same time...
...rank & file was ready. During the war, the nation had had overemployment -long hours, the employment of housewives and other marginal workers who did not really care whether they had jobs or not. In the months after V-E day, much of labor had been as ready as returning servicemen to take a holiday before settling down to peacetime production...
Curious crowds jammed the narrow sidewalks of Princes Street. Solemnly they watched the delegates of 51 nations roll up in their cars, and file into Central Hall...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
...steel strike (800,000 workers) is set for Jan. 14 at 12:01 a.m., the electrical workers' strike (200,000 workers) for Jan. 15. On Jan. 16, 125,000 members of the young, turbulent, uncertain Packinghouse Workers are ready to walk out (after a rank-&-file forcing of the leadership's hand...