Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled days following Strong Man Getulio Vargas' suicide, Brazil's outlawed Communists tried hard to keep the pot boiling. But new President João Café Filho was ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...
...LUMBER STRIKE, which started 2½ months ago when some 100,000 Pacific Northwest lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...
...strike was made in Les Landes (The Wastelands), a barren, 110-mile-long strip of sand dunes and pines along the Bay of Biscay inhabited up to now chiefly by woodcutters and sheepherders. Geologists had long suspected that there was oil beneath the pines and sand dunes. But the French had not been able to find...
...London Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (a kind of junior relative and farm club of the famed old company) went on strike for higher pay, canceling the company's two-week London run this month. Management came through with "merit raises" from $2.80 to $5.60 weekly, which puts the average corps member in a slightly better financial position than bus conductors and typists (about $20 weekly) but not quite up to the average of a West End chorine (about...
...COPPER STRIKE, which idled 33,000 workers, may prompt Attorney General Herbert Brownell to crack down soon on the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers under the new anti-Communist...