Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisp with excitement and expectancy in the crowded Washington hearing room this week when the fact-finding panel appointed by President Eisenhower started its last-chance hearings in an effort to help get the steel strike settled. When the session ended 4½ hours later, Chairman George William Taylor was still showing the unflagging amiability and hopefulness of the professional mediator, but the excitement and expectancy in the audience had soured into disgust at both sides. The fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling...
...Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. With nearly 90% of the nation's steelmaking capacity idled since mid-July, with layoffs spreading rapidly through the economy as manufacturers shut down for lack of steel (see BUSINESS), McDonald kept spouting purple rhetoric, Cooper kept spouting dun-grey generalities. Said Chairman Taylor at one of the sessions: "It's very distressing at this stage that we are still having trouble defining issues...
Bungled Campaign. At the start of the strike, the big steel companies, led by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, laid down a demand of their own: in return for even a modest boost in wages and fringe benefits, the union would have to agree to contract changes to "cut the cost of steelmaking." With high labor costs squeezing U.S. steel out of foreign markets (TIME, July 20), the steel companies had a solid argument for holding costs down. Revelations of corruption in the labor movement had weakened organized labor's influence. And the U.S. public was fed up with...
...first trickles of third-quarter earnings reports from industry's accountants were uniformly good. Thanks to big defense orders and strong consumer sales, General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner was able to announce record nine-month earnings of $189,512,000, up 17% to $2.16 per share for the nation's biggest electrical-equipment firm. Giant International Business Machines had a nine-month profit of $102 million, up 10%. Drugs, retailing and food companies all were up, with cheery reports from R. H. Macy & Co., Upjohn Co., Kroger Co. Ford Motor was doing so well that it declared...
...challenging painters and sculptors to match his genius, Wright created a very real and exciting tension, if a formidable one. Harry F. Guggenheim, Chairman of the Board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, commented on the occasion saying, "Let each man exercise the art he knws." Frank Lloyd Wright exercised his; he left a challenge for the artists to match...