Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gourmet Bomb. In Tokyo, when schoolteachers went on a hunger strike, a parents' group prepared a savory meal in the open air, told the hungry teachers to help themselves, but only if they agreed to go back to their classrooms...
...Trans World Airlines' big Kansas City overhaul center and its other bases around the U.S. last week, 7,000 members of the International Association of Machinists marched out on strike. No planes would be serviced, none overhauled. The nation's fourth biggest line had no choice but to shut down. T.W.A.'s 196 daily flights, carrying 12,000 passengers across the U.S. and to 23 foreign cities, flew on to their destinations. Then the big Super Connies and twin-engined Martins were grounded, and the line locked up shop...
...airline strike, falling on the rush season of students flying home over the Thanksgiving holiday, has paralyzed a sizeable percentage of the intended holiday air travel, and has swelled the demand for bus and train transportation beyond capacity...
...airline travel crisis, according to AP dispatches last night, began last Friday when a strike closed down Trans World Airlines. Eastern Air Lines stopped all flights Monday after a walkout of mechanics and engineers...
...become almost impossible to organize areas where workers are in an especially weak position." In Utah, which has probably the only right-to-work law with real teeth in it, unionists complain that it is hard to organize workers at all. In fact, there has not been an organizing strike or picket line for the last three years...