Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambling, off-the-cuff Eisenhower ambiguity left unclear just what Ike would do if a demand for higher steel wages resulted in higher steel prices-or, for that matter, in a prolonged strike. But seldom had the ambiguity served to better advantage: for without the thunder of a threat or the balm of a promise, the Manhattan negotiators began to feel the gaze of 175 million pairs of eyes...
...crises that are bound to lie ahead. Gone is the day when the U.S. needs a massive Army to match the enemy's massive Army, for an all-out struggle would soon bring tactical nuclear air-power into play, ultimately the Strategic Air Command and carrier strike forces. But gone also is the day when airpower theorists can write off the Army as mere "trip wire" or "plate glass" to sound the general alarm for all-out nuclear...
...committee as usual gave no dollar figures. But Dave McDonald, who this week opens negotiations with steelmakers for contracts to replace those expiring June 30, predicted that his 1,250,000-member U.S.A. will take home "an even greater agreement" than it won in 1956 after a five-week strike. That pact, says the industry, boosted steel wages and benefits by some 75? an hour to the current average...
...gains won by the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther last fall-to prevent revival of the rebel faction that tried to bounce him in 1957. Last week more mutinous mutterings rose from McDonald's ranks. Pollster Samuel Lubell found that many a steelworker genuinely fears a steel strike, is lukewarm to demands for greater wages, fearing that they might cost him his job (TIME, May 4). To refute Lubell, McDonald arranged for seven of his wage-policy committeemen to stand up in public meeting and demand hefty wage raises. Said one: "A lynching bee would look like a Sunday...
Both U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough and Bethlehem Steel President Arthur B. Homer said that, barring a long strike, the industry's pickup in production would continue; for U.S. Steel and the industry second-quarter production will run between 90% and 95% of capacity. Blough said the rate of production, barring a strike, would drop "somewhat" in the third quarter but "would continue reasonably good because there's been a recovery in the economy that involves an increase in consumption by our customers." And for the fourth quarter production "ought to be better than the third...