Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They (the University) can't afford to let us strike," a vegetable cook maintained. "That's why I say let's strike if we don't all get a flat ten per cent," he exclaimed vehemently...
...hundred and fifty dining hall workers voted overwhelmingly last night to avert a strike and accept a piece-meal wage formula offered in confidence by the University on Friday. A new contract for 460 union members is expected by the end of the week...
Beset by family illness and financial troubles and living on a $20-a-week dole, Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, who won the Medal of Honor after killing 40 Germans in one day on the Italian front, struck it rich on CBS's Strike It Rich. He won the show's $500 jackpot, then got $240.25 more plus an offer of the down payment on a house from sympathetic listeners. To top it all, President Eisenhower sent him a cheering message, recalling how "you rallied to the defense of your comrades," expressing pride "to see your neighbors rallying...
...full membership of the A.F.L. Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, Local 186, will meet tonight to decide whether or not to avert a threatened strike in the University's dining halls by accepting a compromise wage increase...
...union, meeting in its Pemberton Square headquarters in Boston, will consider the University's proposal last week for a 10-cent across-the-board hourly wage increase. Earlier, the local had voted to strike unless its demands for a flat 10 percent raise were...