Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Union leaders threatened to call a general strike for March 1, the day Kekkonen becomes President. The President-elect's first move was to pick his defeated rival, Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm, to form the new government. Finns took this as fresh evidence that Kekkonen is his country's shrewdest politician. If the unions strike, they will be striking against a Socialist Premier...
...dictator then turned back to military problems. At week's end he was reportedly concentrating his eight Thunderjets and 20 Hawker Hunters at northern bases in readiness for an air strike at the rebels. With Merino still sitting tight and hoping for the time factor to operate, it was clearly Odria's move...
...contemplated by the apostle. If a man reads John's account of the Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast and say: 'It is I who am the sinner; it is we, all of us, who are the crucifiers of Jesus...
...RUSH is under way in Alberta, Canada. Union Oil Co. has hit an oil zone 4,797 ft. deep, 220 miles north of Edmonton not far from Lesser Slave Lake. Size of the strike is causing the biggest scramble ever in that province for drilling rights; 12 million acres were reserved in the first few days...
Loyal Dealers. The company's hard-hit dealers, stockholders, customers and 55,000 striking employees were sorely in need of assistance. The longest U.S. strike since 1950 had cost I.U.E. and the independent United Electrical Workers $84 million in wages. The union was paying out $250,000 a week in strike benefits, and Westinghouse had piled up over $250 million in losses. A big question: How long will it take Westinghouse to make up its strike losses, win back its competitive position...