Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATION From Maryland's Sparrows Point west to California's Torrance, the steel mills lay smokeless and still. But with 650,000 steelworkers on strike and the key industry of the nation's economy shut down, neither labor nor management seemed to be particularly bothered or bitter. Strikers waved their signs only when news photographers whooped them on, spent most of their tours on the picket line playing ball, shooting craps, or gazing at television sets plugged into management's power outlets. In Gary, Ind., pickets used an air-conditioned, seven-seat mobile toilet lent them...
...some teeth in him"), who was said to be for reprisals, and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a turncoat Socialist and ex-inmate of Nazi concentration camps (four years in World War II), who was for continuing to ease conditions. Neither apparently disagreed with the notion of making an example of strike leaders: it was the presumably more lenient Cyrankiewicz who talked of chopping off any hands raised against the state...
...state at the 48th U.S. Governors' Conference at Atlantic City, N.J. a set of baseballs autographed by members of all three of New York's major-league teams.* It was a nice pitch, but, like most of Harriman's Atlantic City efforts, it missed the strike zone. The upshot: at the end of the seventh inning of the big Democratic delegate contest, Harriman still trailed Front Runner Adlai Stevenson, 3-1. Nothing Harriman tried at the conference quite seemed to work. When he tried to switch-hit on the civil-rights issue ("I know and understand...
...workers' wages 30% to the starvation level normal for Polish workers (a month's work for a pair of leather shoes). The locomotive workers sent a delegation to Warsaw's Communist bureaucrats to plead their case, but, having little hope of relief, they organized a strike...
Steel production reached 63 million tons in the first half, 3,000,000 tons over the 1955 record. Second-half production will be down, but, barring a prolonged strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), should still total 54 million tons, making 117 million tons, the same as last year's peak. Construction, spurred by the great expansion in commercial building, was going along at a $44.5 billion-per-year clip, ahead of the 1955 record by $1.5 billion despite the lag in housing starts. New plant and equipment investment was running 22% in front of 1955. The electronics industry was heading...