Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Donald W. Sorrell, 64, onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...
...Nevada's George Malone) the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (TIME, June 23), after voting to require employers as well as union officers to swear that they are not Communists to qualify for National Labor Relations Board services. The Senate earlier rejected a Kennedy-Ives proposal to strike the requirement from the law as "ineffective." Aiming at correcting labor abuses by requiring 1) periodic secret-ballot union elections, 2) regular union reporting to the U.S. Labor Department on financial and other dealings, the bill now goes to the House, where its fate, in an election year, is doubtful...
Complicating matters for the Inquirer (prestrike circ. 619,054) was a simultaneous strike of most of its 710 American Newspaper Guild employees on issues of wages and benefits. Still, a dozen Inquirer executives, plus 70 nonstriking Guildsmen. were managing to get out some 17,000 copies a day. The non-Guild Bulletin (707,406) was selling more than 100,000 copies daily in its lobby. Neither paper was accepting...
Only nonstruck major Philadelphia paper was the Daily News (circ. 191,666) of Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications, which also owns the Inquirer. The News was standing steady at its normal press run. refusing to take any extra ads, and discreetly printing almost nothing about the strike...
...enterprising Philadelphia small fry, the strike was a bonanza of sorts. They bought up piles of the papers at 5? a copy in the downtown offices, hawked them in the suburbs for as much as 15? each. But some ran into a hazard undreamed of in their teen-age philosophy. Striking Teamsters intercepted them, took their papers and dumped the bundles into the murky waters of the Schuylkill River...