Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specialization. In Los Angeles, closed-shop contract demands were being made by the Flea, Tadpole, Worm, Cockroach, Rodent and Bird Trainers' Local of the Trainers and Handlers Union (A.F.L...
...Barberton, Ohio, 1,200 employees of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. walked out on strike, explaining that, after more than three months of fruitless bargaining for a new contract, they were suffering from "negotiations fatigue...
Phil Murray was conferring feverishly. There was a closed-doors conference with U.S. Steel Vice President John A. Stephens, an all-night session with Stephens and other U.S. Steel negotiators. Rumors of a settlement drifted out at the same time that "No Contract, No Work" stickers appeared on steelworkers' cars...
...Burt Shotton had been thrown out of only two games in 39 years of playing, coaching and managing. Once before, with the Browns, he had pinch-hit as Rickey's "Sunday manager" (the day the boss stays home). Shotton would manage the Dodgers on faith, without a written contract. There was no official word on salary, but everybody knew that it was far less than the $60,000 Durocher would have drawn for the job. And there was little doubt that Shotton would step aside once Durocher was back in grace...
...some of them were shocked when the Bell-controlled board of eleven directors awarded him 1) a five-year contract at a minimum of $55,000 a year; 2) a $160,000 annuity which would add some $10,000 to the $18,000-a-year pension which he is slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half...