Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guessed that we had, adding that we didn't deliver anything and that "we didn't do anything to hurt your strike...
...CRIMSON crossed picket lines yesterday to determine the causes of the Coca-Cola strike which has deprived the Cambridge community of the pause that refreshes. We witnessed a vivid instance of the ill will growing out of the week-old dispute...
After a 22-day strike, the 1,500 American Airlines pilots won a fat 18-month contract this week. Their settlement ended the worst series of labor dogfights in U.S. airline history. American contracted to put a third junior pilot in jet cockpits, pay him at least $650 a month. The pilots also won pay boosts from a top of $19,220 a year to $22,596 for flying piston-engine DC-78. They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when...
...American pilots' victory, which will set the pace for the whole industry, was wrought at great cost to others. Some 20,000 other American employees were put out of work for a week by the 22-day strike. American and its suppliers lost an estimated $33 million...
Grand Old Actor. The essence of history is hindsight, and it is difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...