Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to hurt much at first-only some local twinges of discomfort and worried looks in high places. But by last week, the discomfort had become painfully general. The U.S. economy was slowly suffocating in the tight, unrelenting grip of the first simultaneous nationwide strike in coal and steel...
...Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...
Steel, the big muscle of U.S. production, was just as palsied. Three weeks of strike in its mills had been enough to hobble the huge U.S. auto industry. Ford Motor Co. prepared to halt production and lay off most of its 115,000 workers by mid-November. Packard worked on halftime. Layoffs would pull most of Chrysler's 86,000 employees off the line within two weeks. General Motors had cut down to a four-day week at some plants...
...Simmons [mattress] Co., 37 steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
Minnesota's big, rugged line was enough to scare any coach. Before last week's traditional battle for the "Little Brown Jug," Michigan's Coach Bennie Oosterbaan decided to strike over Minnesota's beef trust instead of through it. Bull's-eye passes set up two Michigan touchdowns...