Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopefully, the government described the Algerian war taxes as "temporary and extraordinary." Last week, however, as Moslem residents of Algiers marked the 126th anniversary of French conquest of the city with a one-day general strike, there seemed little likelihood that France would soon be able to withdraw the enormous (half a million men) and expensive ($2.9 million a day) force it currently maintains in Algeria. And, temporary or not, the new taxes clearly point to a continuation of the steady price rise, which since January has increased the minimum budget on which a Parisian family of four can live...
...ballplayers' credit, they have also slowly learned to gab in their own behalf while still in uniform. Though they have never really joined organized labor-four separate unions have flopped, and they have never managed a successful strike-each team has its player representative. If trivial requests have failed (one Philadelphia muscleman thought dugout benches needed foam-rubber cushions), earnest efforts to improve conditions have built the pension system and boosted minimum salaries...
...This dramatic story," says Composer Moore, "makes an ideal outline for an opera libretto." He is right. Born in Vermont in 1830, HAW Tabor caught the gold fever early, wandered with his wife Augusta to Colorado, and for 20 years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor...
...Despite a paucity of favorable news, the stock market had a good session yesterday under the leadership of steels," reported the New York Times one day last week. It was the understatement of the week. With 650,000 steelworkers on strike and 90% of the industry shut down, there seemed little cheer for Wall Street's traders; yet they scrambled to buy. Along with steels, oil and aircraft stocks pushed higher, and the 1956 bull market went up on three of the four trading days. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood...
Pinches & Prices. Why all the optimism? Part of it was the absence of any real bitterness in the steel strike, even though other industries also started to feel the pinch. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which gets 30% of its revenues from the steel industry, imposed a 10% pay cut on all nonunion employees. Some 90,000 other workers in rail, truck and water transportation industries were laid off. To keep defense plants running, the Government clamped a freeze on certain steel stocks, ordered warehouses to ship them only to defense contractors. Yet it would still be several weeks before any real...