Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike...
...plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence and lawlessness of any kind on their part, just as much as against arrogant greed by the rich...
...faculty increased from 522 to 797. More important, the already high standards on his campus soared even higher. The classics experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week, as Michigan mourned the loss of its able dean, Washington rejoiced. Observed Seattle's weekly Argus: "Seldom has a new university president been so universally acceptable...
Getty not only made a big strike of Eocene oil at 1,200 feet, but got right to work on a refinery to turn it into heavy fuel. Since 1956, when Getty formally changed Pacific Western's name to Getty Oil Co., Getty's half share of Neutral Zone production rocketed from 5,841,728 bbl. yearly to 11.6 million bbl. last year. Getty considers that just a beginning; the wells are scheduled to double production this year. The zone has 60 wells producing 100,000 bbl. daily, another 60 that have struck oil but are shut...
...juvenile court put a 15-year-old girl on probation after she pledged: "I will get a job and will not sit at home all day running the rest of the household; I will not be violent, swearing and shouting and breaking up the home; I will not strike my mother or order my father out of the house...