Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better the lot of her sisters in satin, two years ago Lucie Daouphars, an almond-eyed part-time Dior mannequin who calls herself Lucky ("It pronounces Looky, as in Looky Strike"), organized L'Association Mutuelle des Mannequins de France. For dues of $7 a year, the association undertook to provide its members with free legal aid, a form of unemployment insurance, medical aid (even in cases of unwed motherhood), and the services of a plastic surgeon. "A bosom of growing importance," sighs Lucky, "is often a cause of unemployment."* Best of all, the association provided its girls with...
Seething over this latest example of the Christian Democrats' new determination to harass the enemy by every legal means, the Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...
Troubles Begin. As the strike went on, Japan learned more about Natsukawa's kindly ways. For example, any Ohmi girl who married despite all the difficulties had her wages cut "because of decrease in efficiency." Such stories put public opinion behind the strikers. Natsukawa countered by offering strikebreakers a handsome $1.25 a day, plus cigarettes and sake. He sent a fleet of light planes to shower Tokyo and Osaka with 10 million leaflets, distributed thousands of matchboxes, floated huge balloons over Osaka with his message: "The All-Japan Textile Workers Union is destroying Japan's industry through Communist...
...Strike's End. Last week, under pressure from an outraged public and an alarmed government. Natsukawa gave up, wanly signed an agreement ending the 106-day strike. Natsukawa promised to observe union working hours, and to "decide rationally" the problems of mail censorship, dormitory restrictions and compulsory Buddhist ceremonies...
...some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with Goodyear after a 53-day strike, and with Firestone after 24 days, for 6½?, just a little more than the companies offered in the first place. Workers who went on strike last month at Kennecott Copper for 25? an hour were settling for a nickel...