Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gainesville, Fla., attended Purdue for a while before her father was transferred to Vienna in 1946. There, in the normal round of Army social events, she met Captain John Eisenhower, U.S. Infantry, who was a company commander. They got married less than a year later in Virginia, at a big wedding attended by 200 guests, including Army Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower...
...public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display of stubborn disregard for the public interest. McDonald airily demanded that the steel industry return to company-by-company bargaining (the big steel companies set up an industry bargaining committee in 1956), a demand that nobody took very seriously...
...big background fact of the steel strike is the U.S. economy's pressing need for a hold-down on production costs. Round-after round of wage boosts followed by price boosts has brought not only price upcreep at home but also loss of export markets abroad. Western Europe's rebuilt industrial plants, more modern on the average than the U.S.'s, confront U.S. industry with increasingly rugged competition. In late 1958, the U.S., for the first time since the igth century, became a net importer of steel instead of a net exporter...
...Last week American Can Co. and Continental Can Co., Big Two of the U.S. can-manufacturing industry (see BUSINESS), signed new threeyear, 28.2?-an-hour-more contracts with Dave McDonald's Steelworkers-and promptly announced that can prices would have...
Some kind of explanation was needed. Mamie made $25,000 a year as head bookkeeper at the big Detroit architectural engineering firm of Giffels & Vallet (now Giffels & Rossetti). But the Averills lived far beyond the $25,000-a-year scale, with a chauffeured Cadillac, lavish wardrobes, a $300,000 estate in rural Michigan, a home in Florida and a $100,000 hunting lodge in Canada, built to resemble a British castle...