Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government oil monopoly, Petrobras, can legally hire the services of foreign experts and drilling companies, but it cannot grant concessions or sell shares to foreigners. Because of this self-inflicted shortage of capital and know-how, the Brazilian search for oil has been painfully slow. Last week's strike, made with the help of a Texas drilling firm hired by Petrobras, eased the pain. By itself the well is only a drop in the barrel of Brazil's oil needs. But it lies in a vast, geologically uniform sedimentary basin, and heralds-or so Brazilians hope-many Amazonian...
...Curtain comes swiftly down and stagehands swarm on to strike the study set. Flats are restacked swiftly for transfer to trucks waiting back of the stage on Seventh Avenue, ready to take them to the warehouse (there is not enough room at the Met to store all the scenery). Choristers and dancers pour out from the wings to take their places in the Kermesse set for Scene 2. Gay carnival lanterns, already lighted, are strung across the stage. More than 170 people are moving about in seeming confusion...
When he bought the Brooklyn Eagle 17 years ago, Publisher Frank D. Schroth took on a sickly paper and a tough labor problem. The Eagle had barely survived a 14-week strike by the Newspaper Guild. Right after he became publisher, Schroth announced: "With careful management and a lot of luck we will revive the Eagle. I sincerely hope to have the friendship of the Guild." Frank Schroth's management and the wartime boom gave the Eagle a semblance of health again; it pushed into the black off and on, and in 1951 won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious...
Last week, on the 47th day of the strike (TIME. Feb. 28), Publisher Schroth admitted that the Guild problem had licked him. He closed the n 4-year-old Eagle "forever." Said Schroth bitterly: "On January 28 the paper had 130,000 circulation . . . and many loyal advertisers. It also had 630 employees. Now it has nothing. No circulation. No advertising. No employees. The consequences of the strike have destroyed the Eagle...
...continued to picket the plant. They were wrong. Schroth made clear that his decision was "irrevocable." The Eagle and its equipment were put up for sale. Schroth also has a 25-year lease for a brand-new building that the Eagle had expected to move into just before the strike started. (The building now occupied by the Eagle was bought to make way for a Brooklyn civic center.) Publisher Schroth said there was "no one in sight to buy the Eagle and bring it out again...