Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then, as suddenly as it started, the strike was over. The night the President spoke, the National Mediation Board called in the union chiefs, told them to "bring your pillows" for an all-night session. No settlement was reached then, but the men, except for a handful of bitterenders, went back to work, in the morning. They had heard the President of the U.S. say: "No matter how serious you believe your grievances are, nothing can excuse the fact that you are adding to your country's danger. I ask you, in the name of our country, to return...
...Rattlesnake, N.Mex. to buy cigarettes, he saw two men examining a fist-sized, yellow-streaked piece of rock. He heard them say, in Spanish, that it was a sample of uranium ore, and that the Government was offering a $10,000 prize to prospectors who made a big strike. Paddy decided to try finding some and that same day, as he rode his horse homeward, he spotted an outcropping of the odd-looking rock. He broke off some. Next day he took it to Grants, gave it to the mayor and asked him to get it analyzed...
...Gurley popped into town to see for himself, decided to spend $50,000 for exploration work. He soon had crews of geologists and laborers working in the mountains, carpenters building a headquarters and assay office 20 miles from town. It would be months before the real worth of the strike could be determined, but Grants and the Santa Fe were optimistic...
...peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold. If the Chinese move in while the allies hold perimeters at Seoul and Pusan, they will expose...
Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks that ever lived." No magician at writing a book, Rinn has nonetheless succeeded in presenting a bulky and formidable blast against spiritualism in all its forms...