Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every city with a TIME bureau, Western Union quickly learns your home telephone number. One night a few weeks ago the operator phoned and began reading a long, detailed National Affairs query in a disinterested voice: How's unemployment, beef prices, mink sales? What are Seattle drinking habits, changes in bank deposits, Christmas trade forecasts, egg supplies, man-in-the-street thoughts, apartment rents, house sales? Suddenly she stopped reading and gasped: 'Good lord, what they want to know...
...next day the President flew back to Washington, stayed late in his office preparing for this week's crucial set of congressional messages. Whatever the State of the Union, the State of Missouri had been real fine...
Nikolai Bulganin, son of a factory clerk, who first became known abroad when in October 1942 he organized Moscow's defense. He is now an alternate Politburo member and a marshal of the Soviet Union...
Next day the conductors showed up to picket the carbarn. Some wore flaming red armbands, others sported miniatures of the Communist flag that hung from the balcony of their union headquarters across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song...
...closing of the Prescott hot table which was opened during the war, leaves the Union with only two serving counters. Heaman expressed doubt, however, that congestion at meal-times will be greatly increased...