Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freak accident may never be known, though Hanoi was quick to crow that its gunners had downed the bird. What was known was that the U.S. Marine Corps had lost its first division commander to be killed in any war: Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, 56, two-star boss of the 26,000-man 3rd Marine Division, which has borne the brunt of the fighting in South Viet Nam this year...
...every member of the working class in this country." Now, he told Wilson, he had concluded that Britain would have to devalue, that "there's a point at which determination becomes obstinacy"-and that he had now passed that point. Exports were hardly rising, he told his boss, and yet enough wage increases had crept past the barrier of the Labor Party's price and income squeeze so that rising demand kept imports growing at an alarming rate...
Alarmed by this development, Party Boss Willy Brandt, the coalition's Foreign Minister, called the emergency conference to enable the unions and local politicians to let off steam. Both groups are particularly furious at Herbert Wehner, the terrible-tempered party strategist of the coalition. They blame him for coming all too speedily to the troubled Christian Democrats' rescue by agreeing to a coalition, thus depriving the Socialists of a chance to take over completely in the next election...
...workers seemed likely to ratify their national settlement. Under the terms, the $4.64 an hour the average worker now gets in wages and benefits would rise over a three-year period by almost a dollar, virtually the same increase agreed on at Ford. Beyond that, U.A.W. Boss Walter Reuther and his aide Douglas Fraser won some extras, notably a Chrysler commitment to raise the wages of its 11,000 Canadian workers over the next 30 months to the same level as those of U.S. workers, who now earn an average 34? an hour more...
Died. James E. Day, 62, president of the Midwest Stock Exchange; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Founder and boss of his own highly successful securities firm, Day took over Chicago's floundering stock exchange in 1946, within a few years had combined with three other Midwestern stock exchanges to create the nation's biggest market outside of Wall Street...