Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago Big Jim warned: "The loyalty of the railwaymen should not be taken as weakness or complacency. Their patience is not inexhaustible." Three weeks ago, refused a modest $1.12-to $1.32-a-week raise for workers making between $17 and $24, Big Jim reluctantly gave the order to strike. The Transport Commission could only stick to the old argument: the commission did not have the money...
Last week, as the strike deadline neared, there was an air of wartime emergency. Sir Winston Churchill himself ordered the country deployed as he had for the General Strike of 1926. Government department heads designated key workers who would have to sleep on the job, and beds were installed in old wartime air-raid shelters. Department chiefs were to be housed in a massive concrete annex to the Admiralty built to be the government's last stronghold in case of a Nazi invasion. Car pools were organized (the London Underground would also stop...
NORTHWEST LABOR PEACE for the embattled lumber industry seems assured for the next 15 months. Both A.F.L. and C.I.O. loggers (100,000 men), who walked out on strike for 84 days last fall, have agreed to a 7½? pay increase recommended by an arbitration panel appointed by Washington's and Oregon's governors...
Within minutes after the first alarm flashes into a central control headquarters of the U.S. Tactical Air Force, strike squadrons will be ready for almost immediate departure. They will be mostly based in the U.S., with only token forces (which, in the atomic age, can still pack an awful wallop) scattered around the world. The tactical squadrons will bear little resemblance to the one-purpose units of the past. Each will consist of 30 or more bombers, fighter-bombers, airborne tankers, cargo planes and communications aircraft. These will be welded in teams that can perform any tactical mission...
...development is a sled that will speed much faster on a longer track. It will have a windshield, permitting better streamlining. But at the point of highest speed, the shield will be jettisoned. Then wind at 24 Ibs. pressure per sq. in. (3,456 Ibs. per sq. ft.) will strike the occupant's body. The occupant? Colonel Stapp...