Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while even Lyndon's intense heat treatment failed to melt the dead lock. The industry claimed that it could not possibly boost its offer of a 40.6? hourly wage increase for a 35-month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
...rare form. He flattered both sides, declaring that "Abel is an able fellow and a hard trader, but he has met his match in this fellow Cooper." He assured the industry that, with profits running at an alltime high, it could well afford a reasonable wage boost...
...stroke, Johnson sent his top economic advisers to the bargaining table with the Administration's own specific "suggestions" for a three-year contract. That was all the negotiators needed. Both sides quickly accepted the terms, which call for an increase of 3.2% for the steelworkers, the maximum wage boost that the Administration considers "noninflationary...
Died. The Atlanta Times, 14-month-old daily launched by Georgia's ex-U.S. Congressman James C. Davis to boost segregation and fight what he called "radicalism"; of poor circulation (less than 75,000 v. an expected 125,000), debilitating losses ($3,000,000), and conspicuous lack of advertising support from Atlanta's big department stores, which despite threatening phone calls from Times fans, remained loyal to the city's well-established newspapers, the jointly owned Constitution and Journal, both of which have helped make Atlanta the most integrated city of the South...
...equalled 3.2% (see THE NATION), he could not take much satisfaction in other recent settlements. Over the past twelve months, pay increases of between 3.5% and 4% have been won in such major industries as aluminum, cement and glass. Container workers won a 3.5% increase, auto workers a 4.8% boost, California construction workers a 6.1% raise for each of the next three years. Last week's maritime-strike settlement, while adhering to the 3.2% formula for its first year, will actually hike the cost of employing masters, mates and pilots by 8.26% a year over the four-year life...