Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sand rat, as we call it." By selling pots & pans, he worked his way through two years at the University of Wisconsin, then quit to invest in a small foundry. Ever since, he has been running his own business, and now has 1,100 employees. Grede has refused to bargain collectively, and has no union contracts. He has licked the C.I.O. steel workers in strikes, or has headed off organizers by wage boosts, pensions, vacations and pay scales at the industry level. Says Grede: "Any group which destroys individual judgment makes for a static economy. To the extent unions...
...Christmas bonuses to employees subject to collective bargaining? Yes, ruled the National Labor Relations Board last week, ordering Niles-Bement-Pond Co., of West Hartford, Conn., to bonus-bargain with a local of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers. The company, which has paid a bonus for twelve years, had cut the total from $108,000 in 1949 to $40,000 in 1950, when it started a new and more expensive pension plan...
Before the evening was over, Al had sold Liz the $100 bargain, and her mother a $69 broiler combination...
...started over the top of the hill." He spent his evenings getting a law degree at Harvard, got his start in real estate in the early '40s, buying low and selling high. One such property was a Manhattan building at 61 Broadway, which he bought at a bargain in 1944, sold...
...Bargain. In Chillicothe, Mo., while Mrs. Agnes Tharp was selling clothes at a charity benefit sale, an enterprising fellow charity worker sold Mrs. Tharp's own coat...