Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally rough were the words of Philip Murray, chairman of S.W.O.C., addressing a strike meeting in Warren: "I'm here to tell Tom tonight that he's not going to get much more ore. Girdler is not a steel man. He was chief of the Jones & Laughlin police force before he was dragged by the bootstraps to be president of the Republic. He's a company cop, nothing more and nothing less, and there's no company policeman big enough to whip...
Britain has yet to find out how much or how little oil she has downstairs, though the first important strike was made at Hardstoft, Derbyshire, in 1919 when oil was discovered about 3,000 ft. below a field of oat stubble. About 100 tons a year have since been produced. Encouraged by this small but steady uninterrupted gush, the Government in 1934 established State ownership of all domestic oil, hoping to make the Navy independent of foreign supplies. Enthusiastic geologists soon began to talk of the possibility of finding oil along a belt stretching from the west coast of Wales...
...their passengers by driving in quick spurts, coasting as far as they could before spurting again. This maneuver was supposed to save gasoline, which was not to be obtained at all. Reason: 18,000 members of Mexico's Syndicate of Petroleum Workers, settling into their second week of strike against Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey and 15 other Foreign companies, had shut Mexico's $500,000,000 oil industry down as tight as a petroleum drum...
...exaggerated and impossible," offered successively a $1.20 and then a $1.33 minimum wage, a 40-hour week split into five days instead of the five seven-hour days and one five-hour day the union demanded. These proposals were turned down as promptly as everyone expected, and red-&-black strike flags continued to fly peaceably over orderly picket lines. Since in Mexico any form of strikebreaking is heinously unconstitutional, no worker was afraid of being displaced...
...ever since his union friends gave Toledano, a dapper intellectual, a trip to Russia to study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough to set him off into a Stalinist rage against "counterrevolutionary tactics...