Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from January through April this year: "Carry this message back to your members : don't do it again. The time has gone when half a dozen men can decide not to work." Mine Boss Lewis had good reason to want peace. He had just negotiated another one-year contract with Edward Fox, representing the bituminous coal operators, for a pay increase that would keep Lewis' 180,000 miners well up at the top of the U.S. industrial wage scale...
JETLINER LEAD is claimed by Boeing for first time. President William Allen says Boeing has sold 134 four-jet 707s to 11 domestic and foreign airlines, either on firm contract or letter of intent v. 114 DC-8 jets for Competitor Douglas...
When skidding Studebaker-Packard Corp. was rescued from the brink of bankruptcy last summer (TIME, July 30), President James J. Nance agreed with his benefactor, Curtiss-Wright Corp., that he would surrender his $150,000-a-year job. Nance also gave up a long-term contract that would have paid him $200,000 a year by 1961 plus a guaranteed annual wage of $40,000 if he left. In return, Jim Nance got a fat unemployment compensation settlement. The deal, disclosed last week: a $286,000 trust fund, an additional $75,000 plus for salary through Jan. 31. He also...
Needed: a Dock. To get the carrier contract. Wolfson underbid Newport News Shipbuilding, which has built two of the ships, thus acquired experience which enabled it to bid about 6% lower on the second job than on the first. It is, moreover, traditionally the industry's shrewdest bidder. Nevertheless, Wolfson underbid Newport News by $6,000,000-$7,000,000. At that price, experts estimate, Wolfson will lose money. In addition, Wolfson's firm must now invest an estimated $8 million to $10 million in a graving dock just to begin building the sea giant...
This small minority of dissenters, however, was voted down by a show of hands. Union members, mostly women kitchen workers, accepted the University's latest offer but empowered business agent Joseph Stefani to bargain further for the butchers before signing a new contract...