Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to a contemporary account, "Then arose Asa the scribe, and went unto Belcher, the ruler, and said behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee, Butter that stinketh not..." However phrased in fact, this request was turned down. A strike followed and the undergraduate body deserted Hollis Hall, the commons, almost entirely...
...various times, there was rioting and a general throwing around of crockery, but the chief transgression was the month's flouting of the Overseers' ban on "dining and supping in private homes." Eventually the Overseers beat down the strike. The Board didn't blame the students entirely, rather it resolved, "that there has been great neglect in the Steward in the quality of the Butter provided by him for many weeks past...
...long battle has begun to tell on the rivals. The workers are losing more than $900,000 daily in wages, according to the company; the union is spending $250,000 a week in strike benefits. The company has lost over $300 million in sales, according to the union; some executives are drawing half pay, and 40,000 employees on the job are obliged to lay off as often as two weeks a month...
Secret Meeting. Costly as it has been, the strike's misery has so far been generally confined to those directly involved. Sticking to its policy of nonintervention in collective bargaining, the Administration served notice last week that the two sides must settle it between them...
...there was slight sign of letup. The union and the company sent one man each to a secret meeting in Philadelphia with Federal Mediator John Murray. The meeting, however, was called less to bargain collectively than to set up rules for further meetings. Said Mediator Murray: "The strike couldn't be settled in anything less than two weeks." While they waited, men in the picket lines heaped up more stones, stirred their chilled feet, and chanted in derisive mockery of Westinghouse's advertising slogan, "You can't be sure if it's Westinghouse...