Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only last month, having for the eighth time condemned the Union for its drastic racial policies, the U.N. General Assembly called on it to begin talks to put South West Africa under the U.N. The Union was piously proclaiming that it was just this kind of "interference" that was to blame for the bloody outbursts that had just been quelled in the South West Africa capital of Windhoek...
...voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President Eisenhower's stern admonition before he departed for Asia that "America needs a settlement now," despite the danger than an aroused public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display of stubborn disregard for the public interest. McDonald airily demanded that the steel industry return to company-by-company bargaining (the big steel companies set up an industry bargaining...
...BOMBER CUTBACK jolted the aircraft industry, resulted in 2,000 layoffs at North American Aviation, less drastic reductions at subcontractors Boeing, Lockheed and Chance Vought. Already stuck for $500 million in development costs, the Air Force has trimmed its $3.5 billion program for 62 combat-ready planes, has given North American the go-ahead on only two prototypes, which will be ready...
Thurs., Nov. 5 The Betty Hutton Show (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). When an overimaginative governess (Betty Hutton) tries to teach her wealthy charges the value of money, the results are drastic: the kids' parents actually go to work...
Goldberg contended there is no national emergency to warrant such drastic action, that there is no threat to national health and safety within the meaning of the law, that the injunction section of the Taft-Hartley law is unconstitutional...