Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stag Dinner. The results of the 1954 congressional election helped to convince Ike that his political experience and instincts were just as reliable as those of any politico. He decided that the time had come for him to strike hard for the kind of Republican Party that he wanted. First he called in G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall to get the facts straight about the election. Then, one night in mid-December, he gave a stag dinner for a group of his most trusted advisers from the 1952 campaign: Hall, Vice President Dick Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
Early this year the trustees gave up, closed down again, prepared to sell the property for demolition. But the workers staged a sit-in strike, demanding that the government take over the plant and save their jobs. Since 70% of them are Communists, they directed their appeal principally to the Communist Party. Last week none other than Mayor la Pira drove up to the old building, formally requisitioned the foundry for the city of Florence, handed the workers checks totaling $1,600 and told them to keep working. The workers thereupon chose a 26-year-old Communist among them...
...offered only $2.40, insisted that it should not be classed with Manhattan papers and should not pay the same scale. Said Publisher Schroth last week: "It is financially impossible for the Brooklyn Eagle to meet the [Guild] demands and survive." Guildsmen, who still remember the bitter 14-week Eagle strike 17 years ago, contend that the Eagle has not proved it is unable to pay-i.e., by showing them the books. If the Eagle is not a New York paper, argued the Guild, why does it pay city-scale wages to its mechanical employees in ten other unions...
When the rains come the aborigines retire into their bark huts, and while away the wet by painting on bark. The pictures (opposite) may look abstract, but aboriginal art is never "nonobjective" in the modern sense: to paint without painting something would strike an aborigine as uncivlized. His subject matter ranges from the constellations through crabs and kangaroos to "Night People," i.e. ghosts...
...lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering 44? and up. As supplies grew short, the U.S. Government refused to dip into its low stockpiles, instead banned the export of all domestic refined copper...