Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Positions of Strength. Both sides considered themselves in strong positions. The St. Louis guild is aggressive and well heeled, over the years has brought minimum newspaper salaries to a scale second only to New York. With members drawing up to $80 a week strike pay, the guild says that only four have reported switching to new, permanent jobs, only 10% have taken part-time jobs to last out the strike. Last week the guild laid plans to put out its own morning daily...
...Newhouse, he admits that the Globe-Democrat has lost about $2,000,000 in advertising revenues since the strike began, estimates that it may cost him as much as $1,000,000 more to get the paper back to its prestrike position. Newhouse is now transferring Globe executives temporarily to other jobs within his chain, has managed to cut his out-of-pocket strike costs to some $20,000 a month. At that rate, with a dozen other moneymaking papers in his string, Newhouse can afford to hold out indefinitely. With the guild demanding to know in advance of Newhouse...
...Public Interest. So far, the only apparent beneficiary of the strike at the morning Globe has been the bigger, richer afternoon Post-Dispatch. Since the strike began, the Post-Dispatch has jumped 60,000 in daily circulation...
Pacing the spiraling output of durable goods is steel production, which last week was the largest in history. U.S. mills, operating at 93.5% capacity, produced 2,647,000 net tons of steel. And many a sign points to the steel boom as being more than mere strike hedging. Steel's key customers, U.S. auto and truck manufacturers, last week scheduled their best performance of the year. Auto output neared the 2,000,000 mark, 34.7% ahead of last year, and truck production was 36.8% ahead of the same period a year ago. Brisk April buying has firmed industry hopes...
Behind the Scenes. Though both labor and management experts predicted a strike, Government officials feel just the opposite. They think that a walkout will be averted -or be no more than a token stoppage-because the public is watching the bargaining so closely. President Eisenhower is reportedly pleased with the prenegotiation squabbling, because it shows that labor and management know they are on the spot, will think twice before assuming public responsibility for an inflationary steel price rise...