Word: skyrocketed
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Italian industrial uprising, which fizzed up with the suddenness of a skyrocket, has subsided as rapidly. When the workmen first seized the factories they declared that they would never give them up until they got full control; and though allowance had to be made for the familiar difficulty of moderate leaders who had to talk radically to hold their following, it began to look as if only complete surrender by the owners would avert trouble. There was surrender, but far from complete. The owners admit the principle of employe participation in management; the details are to be settled...