Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After House Republicans recently blocked a Democratic farm bill that called for high supports on corn, cotton and rice, Speaker Sam Rayburn angrily announced that no farm legislation would be forthcoming this session. Growled he: "We have been up and down this hill as many times as I care to...
Russians by the thousands crowded the site of Kuibyshev dam last week for the opening of the power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People's Choir, flags and gigantic pictures of Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev. As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon...
AS negotiators hammered out new labor contracts in half a dozen big U.S. industries last week, long-term labor contracts that hand out automatic annual pay boosts came under increasing fire. In this recession year, more than 4,000,000 U.S. industrial workers will pocket automatic increases averaging 8? an...
No one wants to scrap long-term contracts altogether. More and more companies now aim at the compromise middle ground of a two-year contract. What U.S. industry also needs is a contract that will give it some of the same protection that U.S. labor gets. Just as labor'...
Since World War II, the corporation has spent more than $3.5 billion to improve plants. U.S. Steel's modern, automatic, seamless-pipe plant at Lorain, Ohio produces four times as much as an older plant of the same size-and with about half the manpower. Big Steel also has...