Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoroughly test out and to use the method of free bargaining," and when the Government starts pressuring, "then I believe it's not free." The "conditions are certainly not here at the moment," he added, for invoking the Taft-Hartley Act provision calling for a fact-finding board ("All the facts are pretty well known") and an So-day cooling-off period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...
Management's tough stand was no idle pose. Big Steel, led by U.S. Steel Corp.'s Board Chairman Roger M. Blough, was bent on halting steel's relentles's postwar trend: ever higher wages, ever higher prices-both up about 150% since 1945. With U.S.-made steel all but priced out of foreign markets and losing domestic markets to low-cost foreign steel (TIME. July 20), the steel industry finally decided to hold out against a wage boost unless the union conceded management more freedom to trim costs by cutting down on "featherbedding and loafing...
...keynote address, J. Bronowski, director general of the Process Development Department of the British National Control Board, indicated that creativity is encouraged only in societies that value changes...
Elliott has often advised the national Administration on foreign affairs. Since 1953, he has been a member of the National Security Council planning board, and served as assistant director of the Office of Defense Mobilization from 1951 to 1953. Since the war, he has been on the staffs of a number of House committees on foreign aid and affairs...
Behind Martin's alarm lay an attempt by easy-money advocates in Congress to use the Government's bond crisis (TIME, June 15) to put pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to go back to the wartime policy of supporting the market for Government bonds. The Fed now buys short-term Treasury bills only. The Fed believes that if it bought bonds now, without wartime controls on spending, it would pump new money into the economy, thus nullifying its attempts to control the boom by tightening credit...