Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SECONDARY BOYCOTTS : The committee bill forbids unions, i.e., the Teamsters, to write contracts prohibiting management from handling so-called hot cargo-cargo from firms having labor trouble. The Administration wants a broad ban on all kinds of secondary boycotts...
...trying to strengthen the bill, Halleck and his allies will gain strength from the same argument that Rayburn used on labor's Meany: the American people mean business about labor racketeering, and they want a tough bill. The only question between them is how tough...
...outnumber men 4 to 1. ("That figure," noted an Italian paper tartly last week, "does not include members of the third sex.") Drawn by the abundance of femininity, Italian males drift from one pretty visitor to another, always careful to move on before it comes time to pay the bill. "These men flap around like butterflies," lamented a French girl. "In France we are delicate and have romance...
...Caracas was at work on the same problem in Venezuela-where 1.7% of the landholders own 74% of the land. Last week President Romulo Betancourt asked Congress to pass into law the commission's recommendations for a "peaceful, legal and orderly reform." No drastic social surgery, the bill's sensible goal is to force untilled land into cultivation and thereby reduce the $135 million that Venezuela now spends annually to import food...
...farm. The plan will cost $240 million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will be for me a feast day of great jubilation...