Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing had not materialized; 2) the consumer-goods program had failed; 3) there was a nationwide food shortage. There were some other failures he did not have to point up: the first suggestion of relaxed control had been followed by the East German riots and by a ten-day strike of slave laborers in the Vorkuta prison camps. Attempts at "honest art," e.g., Novelist Ehrenburg's The Thaw, merely confused Soviet writers accustomed to writing propaganda, including Ehrenburg himself, and honesty in art was incomprehensible to painters of the approved anecdote...
...uranium-rich West another major strike was confirmed last week. Its name: Blue Rock Mine, in Arizona's Rincon Mountains, some 40 miles east of Tucson. The finders: Dentist Garth Thornburg, 35, and his brother Vance, 33, onetime farmer. Pioneers of the Grand Junction uranium rush, the Thornburg brothers collected promising claims on the Colorado plateau in 1950, built them into their Uranium Enterprises. Inc. On their 116 claims in the Blue Rock area, they believe they have at least 25,000 tons of commercial ore, hope to prove out 150,000 tons...
...though the U.A.W. contract with G.M. does not expire until May 29, with Ford on June 1, with Chrysler Aug. 31. Ford and G.M. are the key targets, and U.A.W. is sure to play off one against the other. While Ford would be under strong pressure to settle any strike before losing too much ground in its race with Chevrolet, G.M. might be under similar pressure from its stockholders...
...then pay it back in weekly deductions when they went back to work. But the plan was not liked by the union because of its paternalism, and was dropped when wages were controlled during World War II. Nevertheless, it looked last week as if the union was willing to strike for its own brand of paternalism unless management compromised on some form of G.A.W...
...pamphlet listing 53 reasons "Why I am not a Communist." His own program Lamont describes as "socialism in economics, democracy in politics, and Humanism in philosophy." Elected as a Director of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1932, he was arrested two years later for picketing factories on strike. Nonetheless, some Harvard alumni nominated him for the Board of Overseers in 1937. The University, however, judged their petition "inadequate...