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...Eddie Thomas, a Jehovah's Witness, his new job seemed "a grave contradiction." He had been a steelworker in East Chicago, Ind. But in 1975 his employer, the Blaw-Knox Foundry & Machinery Co., eliminated his job and transferred him to an assembly line turning out tank turrets. Jehovah's Witnesses are not strict pacifists, but they believe in taking up arms only in a holy war for Jehovah. Since the firm had no nonmilitary jobs to offer, Thomas felt obliged to quit. Until he could find other work, to support his wife and four children he applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bearing Witness | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Simon hinted at possible instances of mismanagement, ordered a three-man committee of review to look into the company's past dealings. The committee's first case: a $70 million Wheeling contract for a Blaw-Knox hot strip mill at a time when, says Simon, Blaw-Knox had little experience in such work-but did have a member on the Wheeling board. Giving Blaw-Knox the order, said Simon, was like "buying an Edsel with a Ford on the board." What did William Steele think of Simon's blast? "Without justification," he said, taking off just enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Blast from Simon | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...Blaw-Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: Shiny Quarter | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...liberated Rome. Pope Pius gave an audience to the Allied press, but what impressed Johnston were the shouts of the cameramen: "Hold it, Pope, we gotcha ..." A Scottish pipe band marched into St. Peter's Square, bent-in the words of the pipe major-on "gieing Popie a blaw." The Pope was delighted, says Orangeman Johnston, but "all the same, they might have picked on a more suitable tune than Lillibulero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pungency of War | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Many another bigwig agreed with Price that the boom seemed solidly shored up by orders. Blaw-Knox Co. (makers of industrial equipment), whose net was up slightly, said that its backlog was "not only the largest in the company's peacetime history, but well diversified." Montgomery Ward, whose first-quarter profits (an estimated $24 million) were up 18%, said that its entire capital was "at work in the business" for the first time since September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better Than Ever? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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