Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami Beach's Roney Plaza Hotel, in a pink-and-grey room hung with old French prints of pastoral love scenes, six leaders of U.S. unionism met one morning last week to negotiate a union of their forces, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. "If we can't get together this time," said A.F.L. President George Meany through his cigar smoke, "we'd better give it up." By evening they had agreed-after years of bickering and battle-to merge A.F.L. and C.I.O. into one big federation, 15 million strong...
Political spokesmen for organized labor, echoing Democratic campaigners of last fall, still refer to 1954 as a recession year. But union economists last week reported to the American Federation of Labor executive council in Miami Beach, Fla. that wage increases in 1954 "provided more of a gain in real wages [e.g., purchasing power] than increases in other postwar years, for they were almost entirely over and beyond the amount needed to compensate for rises in the cost of living." The report showed that two-thirds of 1954 union-management contracts brought wage increases of 5? to 9? and about...
...changed its name to Burlington Industries Inc. to reflect its increasing diversification. With $127 million net sales (up 95.5%) for 1954's last quarter, Burlington now has ten affiliates and subsidiaries (making it the biggest U.S. textile manufacturer) turning out everything from winter woolens to summer Palm Beach wear...
Dempsey, a youthful 59, briefly wooed a wealthy widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. Last week the ex-champ popped up in Miami Beach for a vacation with a new friend: Estelle Allardale, a pretty Californian from Beverly Hills and owner of a woman's-wear shop. Mindful of Jack's old weakness, his friends agreed that they could already hear wedding bells...
Still, Small Voice. In Milwaukee, sentenced to two years for stealing a jacket and toweling, Gerald F. Russell admitted that he had no use for either, explained lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...