Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tudeh pickets deployed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s plant in Abadan on the Persian Gulf, and paralyzed one of the world's biggest refineries, chief source of the British Navy's fuel. Their Communist-trained leader, Najafi, had just given officials a 16-point ultimatum asking better pay, housing, transportation and hospitalization for the company's 70,000 workers (about half of Iran's industrial labor). When the company refused to talk, the pickets beat up would-be strikebreakers, confiscated company cars and held some 2,000 British employes and a score...
...market was glutted with cartoons-and editors' offices were jammed on Wednesdays. To solve the traffic problem, Crowell-Collier posted a bulletin-board ultimatum: only 42 artists, all regular sellers, could see the humor editor face to face. The others would have to deal with a secretary or use the mails...
...Senate got an ultimatum. It had dawdled so long over the British loan (TIME, May 6) that one day last week Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley lurched angrily from his front-row seat and, with ill-concealed irritation, served notice that he would resist "with all the powers at my command" any attempt to sidetrack the loan bill for anything else, not even the draft law, which is due to expire...
...presented with an ultimatum," wrote the Sultan of Kedah-one of five who had risen to power since the Jap invasion-"and in the event of my refusal to sign what I call the Instrument of Surrender, a successor who would sign would be appointed...
...Gavam had made a deal, it was at least a better one than he could have got without U.N. support. And if Gromyko had issued another ultimatum, it was one which admitted that U.N. had had a right to consider the case...