Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms and the atom bomb, the Russians justified their seizure of South Sakhalin, the Kurils and other Japanese islands. By holding the islands and delaying peace talks, they kept themselves in a strong bargaining position for eleven years. Last month the Russians decided that the time had come to strike a bargain with the Japanese, hinted that if Premier Hatoyama dropped in at Moscow's Spiridonovka Palace, he might hear something to his advantage about the island territories. Hatoyama, who needs such a political victory to keep his Liberal-Democratic government from falling apart, had hopes that the Russians...
...national product soared to a record-smashing rate of $413 billion in the third quarter, some $4.7 billion higher than during the second quarter, the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported last week. The general increase in business was reflected in third-quarter earnings. Despite the steel strike, many a company reported record profits; only a few were down, and few of those were seriously hurt...
Naturally, steel was hardest hit by the 35-day strike. Youngstown Sheet & Tube's earnings dropped to $3,381,000 in the '56 third quarter from $11,240,677 a year ago, while Crucible Steel's net tumbled from $2,752,293 to $510,226. Nevertheless, Crucible's net for the first nine months stood at $8,597,020, only a little less than last year's, and Youngstown's three-quarters figure totaled $24,904,000 v. $29,247,179 last year. Last week, as autos, freight cars, tankers, schools and heavy construction...
KOHLER CO., strike-bound for past 2½. years, has won round in its battle with Walter Reuther's U.A.W. N.L.R.B. examiner threw out unfair-labor-practice charges against Wisconsin plumbing-equipment maker because three U.A.W. trustees failed to sign non-Communist affidavits. However, full N.L.R.B. must still rule on case...
Died. Owen Gould Davis, 82, pudgy, hornrimmed, onetime record-breaking Harvard dashman, who ground out more than 200 melodramas ("You may strike me, Harold Halverton, but there is a God that will protect a woman's honor") and serious plays, won the Pulitzer Prize (1923) with Icebound; after long illness; in Manhattan...