Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been the infighting that preceded the settlement. The strike was promptly called by the International Longshoremen's Association on the expiration...
...dockers back to work, then backtracked because powerful Manhattan locals refused to go back until the other Atlantic ports had signed. Reason: the Manhattan leaders had been excluded from the final negotiations, suspected a sellout. Thus, from disunity in the I.L.A. as well as disagreement among the shippers, the strike sputtered on for five more days, was not finally settled until week's end. Cost to the shippers: $3,000,000 a day; to the 45,000 strikers: $9,000,000 in wages...
...From the strike the I.L.A. emerged victorious: it had won almost all its demands on contract length (three years), wage boosts (up 32? to $2.80 an hour), fringe benefits and, perhaps most important, the union dues check-off system, which will give it more leverage in dealing with recalcitrant locals. But behind Captain Bradley's back there still loomed the figures of his New York leaders, e.g., Manhattan's Harold (Mickey) Bowers, Brooklyn's Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasia, always unruly and ever ready to pounce...
...final speaker of the evening, Victor K. Weisskopf, professor of Physics at M.I.T., said that the nations of the world should strike at the heart of the "fallout problem" by attempting to halt nuclear tests on a world-wide basis...
...minimum of $300,000, compared to $180,000 for Kiss Me, Kate in 1948. Since it takes a solid run of some six months in one of the big theaters to get back the big money, a musical producer knows he must have a solid hit or strike out. A prime casualty of Broadway overhead is the intimate revue that needs a small theater to catch on. Shoestring '57, a fresh, 30-skit production, managed a three-month run-but at an off-Broadway house...