Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Riding on Willie's power, the Giants romped to a big lead over the second-place Dodgers. Then Willie stopped swinging for the long ball ("I strike out too much when I swing hard"), settled instead for singles and doubles. Still, the Giants stayed in first place...
...Eisenhower Administration cannot take full credit for the drop in work stoppages. With a buyers' market back in most industries, and unemployment hovering around 3,250,000-or 5% of the work force-unions now think twice about striking and then usually settle. For example, Jim Carey's C.I.O. International Union of Electrical Workers last week settled with Westinghouse (for an average of 5?, plus 10? in fringes) only three hours before a strike deadline...
...case in point is the 13-week strike at Detroit's Square D electrical-equipment plant, where the Communist-led independent United Electrical Workers walked out over a company demand for a no-strike clause in the contract. After weeks of negotiation-and no progress-the company decided to throw its gates open and try to break the strike of its 1,200 employees. By last week 450 workers-more than half of them U.E. members-had braved threats and flying fists to go to work, giving rise to scenes reminiscent of the strike-filled...
Another bitterly contested battle has been the strike of A.F.L. Teamsters and other unions against Pittsburgh department stores (TIME, April 12). Now in its 42nd week, the strike shows no sign of ending. The chief issue is the question whether teamsters should have assistants on their delivery trucks. As a result of the fight, the stores have lost about 30% of their sales...
...capital, much of it raised from Cuban investors, and a Cuban government loan of $150,000 for drilling. Under the terms of last month's decree designed to stimulate development of the island's oil resources, the loan need not be repaid unless the prospectors strike oil. With close to a million acres under lease in the central Jatibonico Basin, where a wildcat syndicate last May opened up the country's first sizable oilfield, Cuban-Colombian agreed last week to drill six 4,000-ft. wells when geological surveys are completed...