Word: borg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company cannot insist on a contract guaranteeing a prestrike secret ballot of all workers, union and nonunion. The Borg-Warner division in Wooster, Ohio tried to write such a contract with the U.A.W.-C.I.O.. but the board ruled the clause illegal because a vote by union and nonunion workers would dilute the union's bargaining powers and rights...
...looks. For purely economic reasons, U.S. industry has been doing a great deal of dispersing on its own. In the past year alone, the chance to save on shipping costs to the booming West Coast market caused more than 35 national firms in the East and Midwest, e.g., Elgin, Borg-Warner, to set up branches in the Southern California area. The need for sufficient labor at reasonable wages has forced many other corporations out of heavily industrialized regions into rural areas. Cleveland's Clevite Corp. (bearings and bushings), which has decentralized into eleven plants in the past ten years...
Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...
Died. Thomas William Warner Jr., 39, much-wed (four times) playboy heir (at age 16) to Borg-Warner and General Motors automotive fortunes; by accident (a 12-ft. fall on the grounds of his mother's mansion after a night of bottling); in Pasadena, Calif...
...play, so many times you can lie on the beach, so many times you can go to the races. Then you get damned sick and tired of it, and wish you had a job to go to." Last May Sayre found the job to go to at Borg-Warner...