Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visceral pacifist, he has been compelled by events to call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military menace, urging disarmament, and gigging...
WESTINGHOUSE'S GOAL for 1956 is not only to win back its strike-lost appliance market, but jump ahead 35% over last year's sales. Westinghouse will kick off a $32 million ad campaign, biggest in its history, go to the dealers with a revamped 1956 line: portable TV sets, a 22-inch color receiver, an array of "built-in" refrigerators, freezers and automatic washers...
Typical of today's company towns is New Cuyama, a California community that sprang up from the sagebrush after Richfield Oil Corp. made the state's biggest petroleum strike of the decade in a barren desert valley southwest of Bakersfield eight years ago. Determined to create a community that would match its underground wealth, Richfield sold 201 model homes at cost to employees, put up a handsome shopping center and leased it to independent merchants. The company also provided a $75,000 community hall, a $250,000 motel-restaurant, a $20,000 playground, plus land...
...making profits "not only from mining coal but by mining miners." Many companies fired employees who shopped at independent stores. One of the worst company storekeepers: John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. refused to give miners the right to shop where they chose until after a strike...
Rossano struck out three and walked three in his eight innings, and Kessler struck out two while passing none. MacLeod managed to strike out seven.First baseman JOHN SIMOURIAN slides into second on a third-inning steal. Terrier second baseman JACK MURPHY takes the throw, while DON COBLEIGH backs...