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Ideological Equations. Practically every one of those names was mentioned in what became the second biggest guessing game at the convention. The big question, of course, was: Could Nixon be stopped? The next biggest: If not, who would be his running mate...
United Steelworkers President I. W. Abel allowed that he was "not totally happy" with the agreement, and a number of union locals showed their own displeasure by staging a series of wildcat strikes. Even so, the $1 billion-plus settlement was the biggest in the union's history. The contract will add at least 900 to the $4.93 the average steel-worker now receives in wages and benefits. By comparison, total compensation back in 1950 amounted to $1.91. Be sides a three-year pay increase of 440, the new pact calls for broadly improved pensions...
...time being, however, that remained nothing more than a hope. Within hours after the President's press conference, Republic Steel Corp., the industry's third-biggest company after U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, announced price increases on "principal" steel products of 4.5%. Armco Steel Corp. and Inland followed with broad-based price hikes of their own, and U.S. Steel extended its original increases to several other lines. National Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. weighed in with selective price boosts. Bethlehem, meanwhile, showed no signs of budging. "In our opinion," said Chairman Edmund F. Martin, "our price increase...
...keeping up the pressure at Atlantic Richfield is Chairman Robert O. Anderson, 51, who says that his aim in the business is to be "not the biggest but the best." An oilman for nearly 30 years, Anderson sold his New Mexico-based Hondo Oil & Gas to Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. in 1963 for $37 million worth of stock and a seat on the board of directors...
During the height of its monetary crisis last March, the U.S. lost some $1.2 billion worth of gold, the biggest outflow ever in one month. Since then, the situation has eased. In April, the nation's gold loss dropped to $156 million, in May to $79 million. Last week came the most encouraging word yet. During June, the Treasury Department announced, the U.S. enjoyed a net inflow of $213 million worth of gold, the biggest single increase in the nation's bullion reserves in more than four years and the first monthly gain of any kind since last...