Word: busting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic 2-B dispute has been befogged by both sides: by McDonald's charges that the steel industry is out to "bust the union," and by the industry's failure to explain its case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government...
Honest Abe. In Klamath Falls, Ore., a bidder picked up a bust of Abraham Lincoln for $1.75 at an auction of unclaimed stolen goods, discovered that it was also a savings bank containing $4.50 in coins...
Detroit's auto industry, which started its 1960 model year with such a boom (see Autos), faces another two months of bust. Ford Motor Co., which makes 40% to 50% of its own steel, is in the best position, but it has only enough steel to last into early December at reduced production rates. Chrysler, already operating on a four-day week, will probably have to shut down completely by late November. American Motors expects to continue at its present high production rate. Studebaker-Packard also hopes to get by without any cutbacks. General Motors is just about shut...
...British press had been hopefully counting on Old Reporter Jim Hagerty. who has a reputation in the U.S. for doing his well-trained best to bust loose the news. Said a London Observer profile on Hagerty on the eve of Ike's visit: "Even when competing with the smooth liquefaction and intelligently directed asides of the Foreign Office spokesman, his authority, his singlemindedness, his bristling, barbed personality still dominate." But from the beginning of President Eisenhower's British stay, Hagerty had his troubles. He met the press (400 strong, including 50 Washington newsmen) in a stuffy white tent...
...other hand, De Sica is unable to accept the fact that his 16-year-old daughter has, since her last fitting, developed a 35-inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...