Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S story on Walter Reuther [June 20] ... is in itself G.A.W. (Grand Award Writing). Chalk up a victory against Communist propaganda, which keeps yowling about the dirty deals capitalists give labor. Chalk up a victory for common sense, which averted a disastrous auto strike. And chalk up a victory for the nation as a whole, because a stabilized wage means a more stabilized economy...
With the deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...
...also painted a vivid word picture of the scene at this year's Royal Ascot races ("an air of enthusiasm about it never seen be fore"). There were only a couple of things wrong with the story: neither event ever took place. Because of the British railroad strike, both were canceled, but not in time to catch Crawfie's column, which goes to press six weeks be fore it comes...
...guaranteed annual wage came to a second major U.S. industry last week. After a one-day strike, the C.I.O. National Maritime Union won a contract for supplementary unemployment payments from Atlantic and Gulf Coast ship operators. Shippers will contribute 25? daily for each man working, build a fund to make up the difference for 26 weeks between state unemployment compensation ($36 a week in New York, $30 in New Jersey) and $40 weekly when maritime workers are laid...
...expansion of uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME...