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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though a few small Midwestern plants made quick settlements, many of the larger companies, e.g., U.S. Steel's Universal Atlas Co., settled down to fight just as stubbornly as the union. A long fight may be in the making. A New York Times report speculated that cement manufacturers, looking forward to the golden days of the $50 billion federal highway program, are getting set to hike cement prices; a strike, settled in due season-with added costs-would provide just the occasion. "When the negotiations make very little headway all over," added a Government labor expert in Washington, "such...
...without cracking. Already tested for such diverse products as maps, photographic paper, lightweight handbags and raincoats, Papertex will be made in the U.S. on a large-scale commercial basis by a new company formed by Snia Viscosa called Resinova, in conjunction with General Aniline & Film Corp. and Schwarzenbach Huber Co...
Truckers' Treat. A tractor-trailer to take some of the drudgery out of long-haul trucking has been developed for National Van Lines by General Body Co. and White Motor Co. The high-bodied tractor unit perches the driver 8 ft. above the level of the road, which gives him better daytime visibility and avoids the nighttime problem of oncoming headlight glare. Back half of the unit is the equivalent of a rolling motel; instead of a cramped bunk behind the driver's head, the tractor has a small room with two bunks and a lavatory...
Died. Paul Starrett, 90, co-founder (1922) and longtime board chairman of Starrett Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...
Hollywood, turning its best scene-milking hand to this bittersweet trifle, called upon the services of Producer-Director Wilder. Squeezing the last drop of champagne from his vintage script of springtime in Paris, Co-Scripter Wilder achieves many effervescent effects. But his last-minute cascade of bubbles, belly laughs and bathos is overstretched and often repetitious...