Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placed a strain on France's inflated economy. Six months ago, France was enjoying something of a boom, and producing more cars, steel and textiles than ever before in its history. Production is going up, but last week, on their return from the beaches, French workers were out on strike in 17 provincial towns. Their demand was for higher wages to match higher prices...
Grey Market. The U.S. has been using copper at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a year, importing about 20% of the total. But a 43-day strike last summer by the Communist-dominated Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers cut the national supply by 80,000 tons. Meanwhile, the West European boom had turned England, France and West Germany into high-bidding competitors for the international copper supply. The price of copper, which stood at 12? a Ib. at the end of World War II, shot up to 43? on the official market. Last week the unofficial grey-market price...
...began to haunt the bars of Montmartre searching for American soldiers. Finding one, he would strike up a conversation in excellent English. "In France," he would say, "we consider the numbers 1 and 10 unlucky. I hope your hotel room bears a lucky number." Falling into the trap, the G.I., like as not, would tell his room number. After that, it was nothing for Jean-Louis to pose as the G.I. over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then...
...next day, 22 hours after its workers went on strike, American Motors (Nash, Hudson) became the first of the Little Three (others: Willys, Studebaker-Packard) to sign a pact with a guaranteed annual wage. But struggling American, which currently produces 2.3% of the industry output, won important concessions at the last minute. It will not begin payments into the special G.A.W. trust fund until Sept. 15, 1956, more than a year after the Big Three, will thus save 5? an hour on 24,000 workers during the pact's first year...
...union must honor an arbitration clause in a contract. The A.F.L. Teamsters Union refused to obey such a clause in a contract with W. L. Mead, Inc. of Boston, went on strike anyway. The company fired the strikers, and the board upheld...