Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strike Hits N.Y. Newspapers...
Argentina and Venezuela, he noted, are each attempting to restore constitutional government after a long period of dictatorship. But Argentine President Frondizi has had to declare a state of siege to counter the threat of an oil strike led by the Communists and Peronistas, while the future of Venezuelan democracy may depend on the military's willingness to step down in favor of a man whom they had previously deposed and persecuted...
...fuel-flow system of a new 707 jet. Eastern's mechanics, like those at T.W.A., originally wanted a whacking 49? an hour across-the-board boost (present wage: $2.51). Both lines offered 41? an hour over three years, or what the union won after a 37-day strike against Capital Airlines last month. Since then. National Airlines (see below) has signed for 44? an hour, to match Capital's hourly wage...
...other phase of Eastern's strike is jurisdictional, an argument between the pilots' and engineers' unions over whether the "third man" in the cockpit shall be a pilot or an engineer (TIME, May 5). Eastern has agreed with the pilots' union that the engineer on pure jets should be a trained pilot also. It is willing to give its engineers pilot training at company expense, but the engineers say this is no help; as pilots, they will be at the bottom of seniority lists, will be laid off if the line starts reducing its crews because...
...Both sides are so far apart that a meeting scheduled to be held last week never came off because President Sayen insisted on meeting in Chicago (his headquarters), while American insisted on Manhattan (its headquarters). Said Manhattan Federal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan, who ordered the strike postponed for at least a week: "It all gets pretty silly. The attitude of neither party commends itself to the court. Both have failed morally in the matter...