Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private enterprise. Foreign Secretary Macmillan (whose son and son-in-law were elected along with him to Parliament) is a wartime friend of Eisenhower's, and a firm believer in the Anglo-American partnership. The Tories have problems ahead -including, two days after the election, a nationwide railway strike-but they also have at last a comfortable majority and a prospering, confident nation...
...midnight, in the middle of the annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
Newly elected Prime Minister Eden, already preoccupied with a dock strike that has disrupted six major seaports, went on the air from the prime-ministerial country place, Chequers, to appeal to the strikers. "The country is going to be hurt," said he, and there will be "unemployment on a rapidly increasing scale." Put on notice by the striking union's advance warning, Eden's Cabinet was ready with emergency plans for distributing essential food and medical supplies. The government, said Eden sternly, "will do all it can to protect the nation...
...months ago, Red-led unions closed down all of London's dailies for two weeks (TIME, May 2). Last week in France, Communist-led mechanical unions shut down 140 of France's 160 dailies (and the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune) for 24 hours. The strike was called to protest a bill, passed last week by the French National Assembly, eliminating closed-shop privileges that have enabled Reds to dominate French trade unions...
There has not been a major strike since 1953, despite Communist control of most of France's unions...