Word: 159th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncomfortable 90 minutes, officials of Hawaii's seven struck stevedoring companies insisted that "no settlement has been reached." But finally they got together and grumpily confirmed what they considered to be Bridges' rudely premature revelation. The I.L.W.U. and the stevedoring firms had come to terms on the 159th day of a strike which had crippled the islands' economy. The terms: an immediate 14?-an-hour raise for longshoremen (to $1.54 an hour) and an additional 7? boost beginning March 1. The total was 11? less than the I.L.W.U. had first demanded. The 7? raise next March...