Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the sad spectacle lasted into the fourth day, Cafe Filho tried a small-carrot-and-big-stick approach. He summoned the strike leaders to Catete Palace, told them that 1) if the doctors would do their moral duty and go back to work promptly, he would try to find a way to ease their salary pinch, and 2) if they did not go back promptly, he would begin drafting them into the army. (Most young or middle-aged Brazilian doctors are rated as military reservists.) That worked. At their strike headquarters in the dance hall...
...days after the strike's end, a special joint session of Congress met to consider Cafe Filho's veto. In wage-conscious Rio, not one Congressman was bold enough to speak in the President's defense, but when the debate ended, the vote in favor of the wage-raise bill (124-120) fell far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and the President's veto stood...
...taxes, on a total income of $20 million. Rising costs cut profits to $347,000 by 1949. In 1951 and 1952, said Mrs. Reid, the paper was "slightly on the edge of the red." Last year the Trib counted on a $200,000 profit, but the eleven-day newspaper strike cost it more than $500,000, tumbling the paper into its biggest postwar deficit. This year, on an estimated income of more than $26 million, the Trib will probably be only slightly...
...responsibility and second as a business," the declining profits of the Times are not the major reason for the changes. But the profit margin of the paper, one of the wealthiest in the U.S., has dropped so fast that it is a cause for concern. Last year's strike, said Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, cut the paper's earnings to "virtually nothing." The fact that the Times can make money at all is something of a publishing miracle in the face of its overhead and its comparatively ' small circulation (539,435). Its editorial operating expenses...
Some of the week's most noteworthy events took place offstage and underwater. Colgate-Palmolive, sponsor of CBS's nighttime version of Strike It Rich, the show that trots misery right onto the stage and peddles soap with it, announced it was dropping the show at year's end. This good news for good taste was tempered by the fact that the same sponsor apparently plans to continue the NBC daytime version of Strike It Rich...