Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel strike lagged into its third week (see below), the pinch was starting to hurt retailers in some steelmaking areas, though many were trying to bolster sales with generous credit terms (see cut). The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the week were down 1% in the Chicago area, down 6% in Pittsburgh. But it will still be some time before sales are badly hurt. One of the most notable things of 1956 so far is the way Detroit merchants keep on selling in the face of heavy auto layoffs totaling 280,000 Michigan workers. While sales...
...week-old steel strike has brought the question from some laymen: Why not arbitrate? Instead of settling the dispute by force, let industry and union turn the dispute over to an expert, impartial arbitrator who would make a binding decision on the basis of facts...
...comedy of its age, Holiday has special appeal for us today: it presents pre-echos of the Horatio Alger story, champions the ideals of democracy (even the King proclaims that "love respects no blood, cares not for difference of birth or state"), and contains the first labor sit down strike in drama...
...United Steelworkers' Boss David J. McDonald and U.S. Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens, came away saying only that they would "be in touch." The workers themselves seemed unworried. Said one grizzled crane operator: "I guess I can eat and sleep no matter how long the strike lasts...
...million tons, although it is unevenly distributed. Steelmakers, who have worried about the effects of a big price boost to pay for a wage increase, might well feel that users would swallow the boost more easily with lower stocks on hand. Some small steel companies unaffected by the strike had already raised prices from $6 to $16 a ton; a short breathing spell would help smooth the ground for an industry-wide boost later...