Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of the chief of government, we quit." Undeterred, the civilian members of the committee called for a general strike against De Gaulle's directive...
...copra-and-phosphate economy to stagnate in the face of a population explosion that has doubled the population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated by French and Chinese businessmen, he pushed through an unheard-of income tax. A shopkeepers' strike and the fury of well-organized rioters, who stoned the Territorial Assembly building, forced its repeal...
...with revenue passengers when BOAC's Comet IV three weeks ago began a weekly London-New York run. BOAC hoped to follow up its head start by beginning daily New York-London flights on Nov. 14. Last week BOAC's Comets were grounded by a wildcat strike of maintenance workers that stopped all BOAC flights out of London Airport. The strike was called by longtime Communist Union Leader Sid Maitland after five maintenance men said they were fired for refusing to work overtime, the climax of a long dispute over wages. If the strike continues, all BOAC flights...
Fort Pitt had once been Pennsylvania's top brewer, but a strike had laid it low. Its big asset to Coleman and Siegel was a $1,800,000 loss that could be offset against profits if merged with a profitable company. With $1,500,000 in bank loans, they merged two profitable overcoat companies (owned by Siegel's family) with Fort Pitt, and wound up with control of Fort Pitt...
...giving in. Three years ago we gave in. Not now." What strengthened G.E.'s hand was the fact that in three key G.E. locals (Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass.; Schenectady, N.Y.), representing more than a third of the union's dues-paying membership, Carey could not get a strike vote. Though more than 40 other locals backed Carey, he was clearly not sure just where he stood. At the I.U.E. convention last month, he got the union's strike-vote clause changed from a required two-thirds of membership to a simple majority. "I have the authority...