Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost most from the nation's longest, bitterest big labor dispute? The United Auto Workers' three-year-old strike against Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis. has cost the U.A.W. $10 million in strike benefits paid to about 2,800 original strikers, plus $2,000,000 in other expenses, e.g., promoting a nationwide boycott of Kohler plumbing fixtures. But the union contends that Kohler Co. has lost $25 million to $35 million in sales. The family-owned company, run by hard-bitten President Herbert V. Kohler, 65, disputes this claim. Although it publishes no annual report, the company says...
...political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some of Marx's bitterest tirades for the Tribune, e.g., his dispatch on the plight of British workers during the depressed 18503, were bodily incorporated into his Das Kapital...
...dictatorship, the Cabinet is a battleground where the chief predators of the regime establish their power positions and fight off attacks and incursions by others. The backbiting is likely to be bitterest as the body politic nears the point of exhaustion. In Spain, which is facing a major economic crisis as a result of 20 years of political mismanagement and economic neglect, Cabinet meetings during the past six months have been getting rougher and tougher; Monarchists boldly attacked the Falange Party, the Falangists demanded complete control of the state apparatus, and church representatives quietly plugged Christian Democracy. Two weeks...
Revealing Vignettes. Such was the rambunctious, unpredictable human material that fought and won the bitterest conflict in U.S. history. Catton's book, "The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War," fills in the broad canvas of the four-year struggle on an area of a million square miles with revealing vignettes of the men who had to do the hard work and the hard dying. There is Sherman's army, on the eve of its march through Georgia, using up its issue of candles to create a festival of light, so that "for miles across...
Predictably, the most vocal opponents of French participation in the Common Market were the Communists (who dismissed the whole thing as a "Vatican conspiracy") and the right wing led by ex-Premiers Antoine Pinay, Paul Reynaud, Edgar Faure and Joseph Laniel. The bitterest-and most surprising-attack was delivered by ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France, the man who once talked boldly of "opening the windows" of the French economy. Now Mendes, whose political influence has greatly diminished, argued that opening the windows so high would drive out French capital and bring in unemployed...