Word: glumly
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After six days on strike, the 76,000 Chrysler workers were determined but glum. They had reduced their original demand for a 30?-an-hour wage increase to 17?, but the company showed no signs of budging. It had withdrawn its original 6? offer. Truth was that Chrysler was short of steel anyway, could easily sit the strike out for a while until supplies accumulated. The U.A.W. executive board grimly asked its members to contribute $5,400,000 to its war chest. "It looks like a long, tough strike," said a grey-haired mechanic...
...Aircraft. The market was still a long way from the fat days of 1946, when daily volume sometimes reached well over 3,000,000 shares. But in the glum days of the 22-month bear market it was something to make traders beam...
Spring came to northern Europe nearly a month ahead of time, and Helsinki had an unbroken succession of lovely sunlit days. They formed an oddly unsuitable background for glum apprehension and nervous political maneuverings...
Company officials were astonished and delighted. The N.M.U. 's left-wingers were glum. Was Avellar a Communist? Said Avellar: "That's not relevant...
Back home in Evanston, Ill. she is remembered as plain Gertrude McBrady, a glum girl in blonde braids. But in Paris' plush Maeght Gallery last week, she was redheaded, black-robed Mademoiselle O'Brady, the brilliant American artist...