Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ABCs of mergers and acquisitions. Only one year old, Corporate Seminars has already graduated 700 students, and Colvin expects an enrollment of 2,000 pupils a year very shortly. Last week, following seminars in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta, Corporate Seminars held classes in Toronto for Canadian businessmen who have also been hit by the urge to merge...
Reuther plans to exact similar concessions from Ford and General Motors on the question of U.S.-Canadian parity. He will get his chance at Ford during upcoming negotiations covering its Canadian workers. G.M. is the only one of the Big Three that has yet to come to terms with the union on a national contract. As the richest, it may hold out against some of Reuther's demands-even to the point of risking a strike. But Reuther, cheered by last week's settlement, predicted that "there is a Chrysler in both Ford and G.M.'s futures...
...arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...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...
John H. Andrews, the Canadian architect of Ontario's controversial Scarborough College building complex, will design George Gund Hall, the new center for the Graduate School of Design...