Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khalidi, a man inclined toward the West and backed by King Hussein, has been in office only a week. Leftists elements called a general strike for tomorrow, and small anti-Khalidi demonstrations broke out in the Arab section of Jerusalem and two other west Jordan cities, Jerico and Nablus...
...funny double entendre. When Trust your Wife used celebrities as contestants, they were guaranteed a fee regardless of whether they won. "Of course," says a Hollywood agent who gets requests from quiz shows for celebrities, "they don't ask anything that will make a big name look stupid." Strike It Rich insures itself on that score by rehearsing some questions with its guests...
...Lucille Ball of TV bowling, recently won him $6,000 and two Fords in a single TV tournament. In another, an East-West TV tournament, he has been rolling up winnings for twelve weeks; if he bowls a perfect game before the cameras (he has come within one strike twice), Campi stands to win $100,000. Bowling against him at Ft. Worth were such other old pros as Detroit's Buzz Fazio and Steve Nagy, veterans of a quarter-century of bowling...
...lost most from the nation's longest, bitterest big labor dispute? The United Auto Workers' three-year-old strike against Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis. has cost the U.A.W. $10 million in strike benefits paid to about 2,800 original strikers, plus $2,000,000 in other expenses, e.g., promoting a nationwide boycott of Kohler plumbing fixtures. But the union contends that Kohler Co. has lost $25 million to $35 million in sales. The family-owned company, run by hard-bitten President Herbert V. Kohler, 65, disputes this claim. Although it publishes no annual report, the company says...
Checking the state income taxes paid by Kohler in recent years, Pomfret found that "the firm has continued to report a substantial net taxable income in Wisconsin, and certainly has been making money." In the last pre-strike year, 1953, Kohler paid $390,509 to Wisconsin, Pomfret reported. This dropped drastically to $124,144 in 1954, when the strike closed the Kohler plant for two months, but bounded back in 1955 to $455,261. Last year, paralleling the start of the boycott and the slump in housing starts, the figure settled to $336,856. Kohler's competitors said last...