Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indubitable capitalist (multimillionaire, onetime railroad board chairman...
...subcommittee concluded that the nation could and would survive-and the extent of survival would depend directly on the number of preparations made in advance. Inexpensive but effective civil defense-of which the U.S. now has practically none-"would save tens of millions of human lives," said Chairman Holifield. If every American family built its own basement shelter, added OCDM, atom deaths would be cut by 12 million and injuries by another 12 million. (OCDM is now distributing 50 million books showing how to construct a do-it-yourself shelter for $175.) Furthermore, said Military Evaluations Chief Walter E. Strope...
...Dear Herr Erhard." Erhard had the sympathy of a growing number of Christian Democratic Party politicos, who were muttering openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
...McDonald announced that the union would stay at work until July 15. He also retreated from the stand that he would extend the contract only if any wage hikes in any new contract would be retroactive to July 1, an issue on which previous negotiations had floundered. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, the man who has most to say about bargaining matters, and the heads of eleven other steel companies agreed to the new terms. This week negotiations were resumed at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt...
MERGER TERMS were approved by directors of General Dynamics Corp. (1958 sales: $1.5 billion) and Chicago's Material Service Corp. (1958 sales: $114.4 million), which will become an autonomous division of General Dynamics. Deal calls for stock of Material Service (building materials, concrete, coal), almost all held by Chairman Henry Crown and his family, to be exchanged for approximately $125 million worth of General Dynamics stock...