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The parishioner managed to strike the attacker in the head with a shovel before tripping and being severely beaten with a hammer by him, causing life-threatening injuries to his skull. Arriving police peppersprayed the attacker to no effect and after repeated warnings to stop his assault, a 27-year-old officer fired two shots when he saw him ...
1922 UMW General coal strike: 1922 nationwide 560,000 1952 steel strike: 1952 nationwide 540,000 [1] [2] 1971 Rail strike: 1971 nationwide 519,000 Steel strike of 1959: 1959 nationwide 500,000 [3] 1956 steel strike: 1956 nationwide 500,000 [4] 1949 steel strike: 1949 naionwide 459,000 [5] 1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1 ...
Vincent Ned DeRosa (October 5, 1920 – July 18, 2022) was an American hornist who served as a studio musician for Hollywood soundtracks and other recordings from 1935 until his retirement in 2008.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The 1942–1944 musicians' strike remains the longest strike in entertainment history. The strike did not affect musicians performing on live radio shows, in concerts, or, after October 27, 1943, on special recordings made by the record companies for V-Discs for distribution to the armed forces fighting World War II, because V-Discs were not ...
Individual songs are usually priced at either US$1.99/€1.49/£0.99, or US$1.00/€0.75/£0.59, with a few exceptions priced at £1.19 or £1.49/€1.99; [16] all are available for download through PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the Wii's online service unless otherwise noted on the list below. In the US, some downloadable songs have been ...
[3]: 36 For strike numbers this change could pose issues, however for total worker estimates it is considered to only have small effects. [ 3 ] : 36, (42 in pdf) Within this period, with the passing of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, the program was revamped under the work stoppage program, however the criteria remained largely identical.
The first Soviet fusion bomb test, RDS-6s, American codename "Joe 4", demonstrated the first fission/fusion/fission "layercake" design, limited below the megaton range, with less than 20% of the yield coming directly from fusion. It was quickly superseded by the Teller-Ulam design. This was the first aerial drop of a fusion weapon.