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Dates: during 1950-1959
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management and labor. Today the practice pads U.S. labor costs by more than $1 billion a year, plagues a broad spectrum of industries ranging from trucking to show business, printing to airlines. This year, as part of industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEATHERBEDDING: Make-Work Imperils Economic Growth | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEATHERBEDDING: Make-Work Imperils Economic Growth | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Instead of blindly disputing each other on the highly charged subject of featherbedding, both management and labor need to realize their duty to themselves-and to the U.S.-to work together in eliminating a luxury that the U.S. cannot afford in a competitive world economy. Featherbedding pushes up prices, pinches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEATHERBEDDING: Make-Work Imperils Economic Growth | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Co., whose Salem is already a mentholated success, was so affected by the sight of all this clamoring at his door that he took a drastic step for the head of a billion-dollar hierarchy. He insisted on answering his own telephone, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: It's the Menthol That Counts | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

From the ricksha-cluttered commercial district of Shanghai to the waterfront of Tientsin, hardly a Western businessman could be found last week in all of Red China. The traders who came and went with revolving-door regularity only a few months ago, crying the benefits of trade with the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Chinese Junk | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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