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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murray, who has a no-strike contract with the steelmakers, had no sooner opened his wage drive in Pittsburgh last week when U.S. Steel Corp.'s President Ben Fairless denied that prices had been jacked up in anticipation of Murray's demands. The price change, he said, was merely an "adjustment of a particular situation of limited scope"; some of the products, he added, were "being sold at a loss." Republic Steel's tall, greying President Charles M. White said it was "compensation for past wage increases...
Changes. To get off the spot, one member proposed at the next meeting that Watchdog Clair Taylor be made superintendent. The audience burst into cheers. The board unanimously voted him a five-year contract. But after thinking it over a week, Taylor declined the job. Instead he recommended that Governor Sigler ask for special powers to fire any board member he saw fit. Even some members of the school board were beginning to feel sheepish about their own conduct. Said Board Member Sadlowski: "I like to play politics, but clean politics. What we've been doing here...
Last week Wurdeman & Becket were hard at work on one of the West Coast's fattest architectural prizes: supervising the $31,000,000 building program for the University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been...
...building Bullock's new Pasadena branch. Their brash argument: as they had never planned a store, they couldn't palm off an old plan. They built a scale model because "most people can't read blueprints or understand dimensions from sketches." After they got the contract they studied merchandising at Bullock's for a year before drawing final plans. They planned the interior first, then "wrapped the outside around...
...Signed a 7-year television contract...