Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that we labor leaders ever had to do." But when a meeting of local members was called a fortnight ago, unexpected opposition to the plan popped up. Horvath was greeted by jeers and catcalls, and the new contract was turned down in a show-of-hands vote (TIME, Aug. 16). The decision stunned Studebaker and South Bend...
GRACE LINE will build two 20-knot passenger-cargo ships under the Federal Maritime Board's $385 million shipbuilding and repair program (TIME, Aug. 9). Grace will spend about $40 million, of which 50% may be Government subsidy, for 300-passenger, 16,000-ton ships to replace its Santa Rosa and Santa Paula on the run from North Atlantic ports to the Caribbean...
...advantages often play an important part in creating the urge to merge, as in the Hilton-Statler combination (TIME, Aug. 16). So do changing business tides. The Paramount Theatre chain, making money in a troubled industry, was a natural to combine with American Broadcasting, which was losing money in the promising new field of television. One of the reasons advanced for Oilman Clint Murchison's current interest in Follansbee Steel (see Tycoons) is that the steel company has a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, something that Murchison has never...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption: with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME, Aug...
Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME, Aug...