Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill Knowland threw up his hands at trying to achieve a compromise, announced that all attempts had stopped and that the Senate would simply vote on the amendment offered by an awesome coalition-within-the-coalition-liberal New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson and liberal Vermont Republican George Aiken-to strike out Section III entirely...
...half hour after the day shift comes on to relieve the nighttime guards. That morning there were no guards to pass it out. In a fine display of solidarity, backed by the nation's three main labor federations, the guards at Sante had decided to go on strike for higher...
...settled down to fight just as stubbornly as the union. A long fight may be in the making. A New York Times report speculated that cement manufacturers, looking forward to the golden days of the $50 billion federal highway program, are getting set to hike cement prices; a strike, settled in due season-with added costs-would provide just the occasion. "When the negotiations make very little headway all over," added a Government labor expert in Washington, "such a concentrated front suggests some timetable is working. Such a remarkable uniformity of attitude is more than a coincidence...
Among the wild banana trees in the hills of Veracruz state, oil crews last week spudded in the second well of the richest Mexican oil strike in more than 20 years. Near by, the discovery well, which gushed 19,000 bbl. a day until it was choked down, was producing 1,200 bbl. a day for the government-run oil company Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos). Capping a series of earlier achievements, the new field signified that Pemex, after the years of fumbling that followed its formation in 1938 from expropriated U.S. and British oil companies, had finally found...
CEMENT SHORTAGE is stalling construction jobs in Northeast, South and Midwest. Two-week-old strike by 12,000 members of United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers union has cut U.S. cement output by one-third...