Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole operation would probably strike many students as over-organized and meddlesome--if it didn't happen to be so convenient...
There were signs, however, that neither side had spoken the final word before this week's strike deadline: while letters from Bethlehem and Republic Steel to their employees emphasized that they stood firm on the five-year pact, the letter from U.S. Steel, the industry leader, failed noticeably to take such an adamant position. Union Leader McDonald indicated that he too would welcome a compromise "if it is a reasonable agreement we can live with." Some seasoned observers even discerned the possible shape of compromise: a three-year pact, a package increase of 20? an hour...
Both sides made the usual last-minute threatening gestures: the union dispatched strike rules to the locals ("There must not be any drinking on the picket lines; no elaborate meals shall be served"), and the steel companies announced that they would begin tapering off production and banking their furnaces by midweek if there was no sign of progress...
MOBILE PENSIONS enabling workers to carry accumulated pension credits from job to job are being pushed on West Coast. After short strike, Libby, McNeill & Libby has signed agreement giving 1,500 West Coast Teamsters Union members mobile pensions, will pay 10? per hour per worker into fund which union and management will administer jointly. With Libby victory, Teamsters have won mobile pensions for a total of more than 200,000 workers in eleven Western states, hope to boost total...
...entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly, "Any one who would say that would strike the Queen...