Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today, with allotments for children (ranging from $10 a month for one child under five to $80 for four children), workers with families have gone into a different kind of income bracket from the young bachelors or the young marrieds. If the young workers in the factories want to strike for benefits today, they would have to go it alone. Thus in an odd manner the welfare state has blocked another path for genuine improvement of conditions...
...removes the incentive for either labor or management to delay settlement in hope of winning points through the White House. Members of the National Mediation Board were delighted. Said one: "We are all convinced that the Railway Labor Act will function if it is left alone. The L. & N. strike proves that...
This time the White House kept hands off-despite intervention pleas by the L. & N management and the governors of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. Some observers were sharply critical, pointing out that the walkout was the longest major rail strike since 1922 and was marked with violence. Snapped the New Dealing Louisville Courier-Journal: "Strikes which lose millions of dollars for all concerned, which erupt into violence and bloodshed . . . cannot be left to the mercies of 'voluntarism...
...union last week suffered another defeat. The Guild had asked for a court order compelling the Eagle to arbitrate the union's claim for $750,000 in severance pay. But the court ruled that the question of severance pay should not be arbitrated. Said the court: "The strike clearly constituted a repudiation by the employees of the continued existence of the contract." With arbitration out as a means of pressing its $750,000 claim (unless an appeal reverses the decision), the Guild plans to sue the Eagle for the money...
...Grimm story, this one about a fellow who catches an enchanted fish, gives it its freedom and is granted his every wish in return. His shrewish wife takes over the wishes for herself. She becomes king, then emperor, but when she demands that she be made God, the whole strike-it-rich setup collapses. Composer Stein, 44, who is a conductor and a teacher at De Paul University School of Music, saw it more as a serious than a comic affair, and most of the music had a mournful cast...