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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Union Power Play. Early in the week McDonald scored on his divide-and-conquer campaign in a friendly contract-signing session with Chairman Edgar Kaiser of California's Kaiser Steel Corp. (2% of steel capacity). Steelman Kaiser (see BUSINESS), refusing to stick with other operators through the injunction procedure, signed a 20-month union contract giving his 7,500 employees a yearly wage-and-fringe-benefit boost worth 11.25? an hour, only a quarter of a cent more than the last industry-wide offer. To the Kaiser company, the terms made special sense because of its special situation, which...
...convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime sponsor Truman. ¶ Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, co-chairman of the presidential campaign of his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Hubert Humphrey, was asked why he did not scuttle Humphrey and run himself. Grinned McCarthy: "That's not a bad idea. I'm twice as liberal as Humphrey, twice as Catholic as Kennedy and twice as smart as Symington...
...visit to Sardis while Hanfmann was in Turkey on another campaign convinced him that although Chase's pottery finds had been destroyed by vandals, Sardis itself, "this great and famous city must be resurrected, that American scholarship had a moral obligation to resume the work that the first Sardis expedition had begun...
...great enthusiasm for a renewed search for the treasures of Sardis was echoed by A. Henry Detweiler, Cornell professor of Architecture, who promised to furnish a contingent from Ithaca, and by the Bollingen Foundation of New York. The financial burden (the first two expeditions cost $60,000, the forthcoming campaign ought to come closer to $50,000) was shared by Harvard and Cornell with the Foundation giving $20,000 each year for three years if the two colleges raised equal or greater sums...
...archaeology, major discoveries don't usually occur in any meaningful chain of events. The Lydian room was uncovered after extensive exploration of the precinct of the House of Bronzes (called by the excavators "H.B."), just a few days before the campaign...