Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greenville, S.C., an Eisenhower Democrat and "country lawyer" with a record of no affiliation with groups on either side of the school-segregation issue. C| Nominated as Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Affairs to succeed Robert Tripp Ross, who resigned under Senate fire over a Defense contract awarded to his wife's firm (TIME, Feb. 25), Murray Snyder, 45, longtime (1953-57) White House Assistant Press Secretary. Able, Brooklyn-born Murray Snyder was a newsman (Brooklyn Eagle, New York Herald Tribune) before going to work for Jim Hagerty, is married and has two children. Cracked Hagerty in oblique response...
Administration's 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction (TIME, Dec. 3). It was "formally" brought to an end a week before the longshoremen went back to work, by agreement on a contract between the I.L.A. brass and the New York Shipping Association, representing its own 170 members and sister associations up and down the coast. But portly Captain William V. Bradley, I.L.A. President, fell on his face when it came time to deliver...
From the strike the I.L.A. emerged victorious: it had won almost all its demands on contract length (three years), wage boosts (up 32? to $2.80 an hour), fringe benefits and, perhaps most important, the union dues check-off system, which will give it more leverage in dealing with recalcitrant locals. But behind Captain Bradley's back there still loomed the figures of his New York leaders, e.g., Manhattan's Harold (Mickey) Bowers, Brooklyn's Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasia, always unruly and ever ready to pounce...
...offensive skill is so sure that he presses for shots only when Seattle really needs a score; he prefers to set up the play for others. Although he still has a couple of years of college eligibility ahead, professional-and industrial-league teams are already pestering him with contract offers...
...bomber in 1958. It will also feel the budget pinch on its previous high hopes for the mammoth C-132 transport (see cut), a new turboprop aircraft that can carry 200,000 lbs. of cargo 3,500 miles at 450 m.p.h. speed. Instead of receiving a big contract, Douglas may in the end produce only a few of the planes. But it will still have a heavy backlog of orders for Navy planes and guided missiles, besides $600 million on the books for a fleet of 122 DC-8 jet transports for U.S. and foreign airlines...