Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Square D electrical-equipment company. After the company had reopened its plant and employees started drifting back to work (TIME. Sept. 20), union leaders and management hammered out a settlement that meant victory for the company but saved face for the unionists. Among the terms: a 4? hourly wage hike (v. the 5? demanded and the 3? offered), an extra holiday, arbitration of 27 cases involving employees who were fired during the strike for alleged violence and intimidation...
...prove their own fortitude (and also that their countrymen eat too much), eleven Swedish vegetarians aged 26 to 44 staged a ten-day fasting hike of 330 miles from Goteborg to Stockholm. Encouraged by pep talks from "Nature Doctor" Arne Wingquist, all but two stood the course, sustained by nothing more potent than plain water. One who fell by the wayside was Wingquist himself, on the ninth day. The marchers' average weight loss en route...
Perhaps it will help relationships." But the Jolly Waterman's vodka went unpoured. The Russians billeted there objected to the long hike to the Thames, and all moved in with the Pearces, who promptly left a note for the milkman to start delivering 40 pts. a day. At the table the crew fell to with precision, putting away great piles of sliced bread, steaming bowls of soup intended to approximate shchee (Russian cabbage soup), potatoes, tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, lamb, milk and soda water. On the river each day, they honed their choppy, elliptical rowing stroke to a fine edge...
...Jurist who led newsmen on a 178-mile hike...
...Metropolitan Opera, which has been playing Baltimore on and off for the last 70 years, decided to hike its required guarantee for each performance from $16,000 to $20,000. Manager Frederick...