Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...weather was dreary and drizzling one morning last week as 500 people filed into the silent Ackermann plant of the Wheeling Steel Corp. in Wheeling, W. Va. The men were not workers arriving for the morning shift but guests at a funeral. They came to bid at an auction to liquidate the plant. In 18 hours of bidding, they bought $5,000,000 worth of idle equipment that once had hummed busily under the hands of 1,200 workers. To Wheeling, the auctioneer's machine-gun chant was an old familiar dirge; for years, thousands of its skilled workmen...
...work force in Kellogg-the first time management had had to exercise the layoff clauses in the contract with the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. When the contract expired May 6, 1959, a deadlock ensued over job security, grievance procedures, seniority, safety regulations and shift schedules...
More than a Dollhouse. In Chartres Cathedral the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared many times and wrought miracles. In 861, three years after the church was destroyed for the first time (by the northern invader Hastings). Charles the Bald donated a treasured relic, the shift of the Virgin (now known as the Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded...
...American League, stung by the invasion of the Yankees' monopoly in New York, retaliated by announcing that it would have a team in Los Angeles by the 1961 season to share the National League's richest city with the Dodgers. In addition, the American League plans to shift the Senators to Minneapolis-St. Paul, replace them with a new team in Washington by next season...
...ROTC for 13,200 second lieutenants next year-about 90% of its new officers. If the switch from compulsory to volunteer ROTC becomes general, the Army will be lucky in the future to get 50% of the ROTC officers it needs. At Wisconsin's Madison campus, the shift to a voluntary program has cut freshman enrollment in Army ROTC by 66%. Best Army hope of persuading state universities to keep the boys in uniform: a proposal, currently under study in the Defense Department, to give universities a grant of several hundred dollars a year per ROTC student...