Word: slowdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hepburnwas fulminating about Canadian defense strikes, two of the largest ones were drawing to a close. This week 4,000 workers of the striking McKinnon Industries autoparts plant at St. Catharine's, Ont. returned to their jobs; 700 coal miners on Cape Breton Island voted to end the slowdown that had cut their production 40% (TIME, Sept...
...proportion to their number. Some 4,500 had walked out of the General Motors-owned parts plant of McKinnon Industries, Ltd. in St. Catharines, Ont., crippling Canada's automotive production. Some 700 were coal miners in Nova Scotia, who since April have been on a slowdown strike, cutting their production in half, causing a shortage of coal for the railways carrying war goods to Halifax and difficulty in bunkering ships for England...
...ether. Einstein incorporated the theory in the Relativity structure, as a consequence not of absolute motion but of relative motion-that is, of the clock's motion relative to a hypothetical observer. For a long time there was no experimental confirmation of the Larmor-Lorentz-Fitzgerald slowdown. Then, about two years ago, Dr. Ives used glowing particles of hydrogen gas as "atomic clocks," showed that their rate of oscillation slows down when the particles themselves are speeded up to velocities around 1,000 miles a second (TIME, May 9, 1938). The experiment was spectacular but the conclusion ambiguous...