Eighteen hours after the earthquake struck, waves began hitting the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, more than 8,000 miles south of the quake's epicenter.
That year saw one of the greatest strike waves in American history, and the United Automobile Workers elected the indomitable Walter P. Reuther its president.
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By now the boat was being struck by waves of almost 5m high and force seven winds.
India's Defense Minister, V. K. Krishna Menon, reported that India's defense posts were struck by waves of Chinese troops in two divisions of 10,000 men each.
Though scoffed at by some as only economic, the strike wave was political in essence.
As a journalist covering the strike wave in 2007, I frequently heard from strikers: "We were encouraged to move after we heard of Mahalla".
The decisions indicate the stand of the industrial unions against their employers in the current strike wave, and appear to broaden the Federal government's power to extend the interpretation of what constitutes interstate powers.
Brazil's currency and bonds dipped a little, but some analysts believed falling inflation justified the rate cut.See article: Brazil's heated debate over interest ratesEcuador's oil workers trickled back after a nine-day strike in protest at government plans, now likely to be diluted, to open up more of the industry to private investment.See article: Ecuador's strike wave.
Under close wartime regulation, institutional relations between the CIO and corporate industry were solidified, and, after a strike wave tested the parameters of this relationship in the immediate postwar period, there ensued a system of industrywide collective bargaining that endured for the next 40 years.
