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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, however, eyes were on steel, always the pacemaker in industrial settlements. Despite the handicap of a two-year contract, a cut in steel prices, and a no-strike clause, the steelworkers' Phil Murray was still bargaining for all he was worth. Last week he announced that negotiations had taken a new tack. A program of insurance, hospitalization and retirement benefits was under discussion. It would cost the steel companies the equivalent of a 9.6?-an-hour pay increase...
...bricklayers' union called the strike on April 1, after the year's contract had expired. Union and construction officials met daily in attempts to arbitrate the differences but little hope appeared until the sudden announcement of the settlement last week. Masons returned to work immediately...
Johnny Weissmuller, 43, was through playing Tarzan after 16 years; he couldn't get together with his studio on contract terms. The new Tarzan: Lex Barker, an old Exeter boy who used to be aide to General Mark Clark in Italy. Weissmuller's new meal ticket: impersonating a screen character called "Jungle...
...shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished fourth), Cleveland fans flooded Veeck with 10,000 letters demanding that Boudreau be kept. He was on a $50,000-a-year contract...
...spare time Radcliffe is all-state football end, the best high-school kicker in Georgia, a guard on the all-state basketball team, and a champion pole vaulter. Radcliffe expects to sign a big league baseball contract when he graduates in June, but says he has no favorite among the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. Says his coach: "He's still one of the boys. They kid around with him just the same and tussle with him. When he needs rolling, we roll...