Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall, company, union and city representatives bickered before 200 listeners. The thorniest issues: Yale & Towne's insistence on a return to the open shop; its refusal to offer any increase except one based on overtime. The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a wartime maintenance of membership contract under protest. Now, labor leaders charged, the company was trying to "bust the union." (Rather than recognize a union, Yale & Towne closed its Detroit plant after a prolonged sit-down strike...
Tools without Priorities. Most notable of all, in war industries often starved for materials, was the way in which the gigantic job was done without hampering any other war production. The bomb had top priority for all materials, yet the priority was seldom used. Example: one $30,000,000 contract used only $25,000 in top priorities...
...showdown came last week at a conference in Havana. TWA and Pennroad bought out Yerex's contract as TACA president for about $100,000, half what he would have received in the eight years the contract still had to run. In return, Yerex agreed not to operate airlines in TACA's Latin American bailiwick for two years. He kept some $3,500,000 in TACA stock and a seat on the board of directors...
Murray has never declined the helping hand of Government, which helped him get his original Big Steel contract in 1937 and his contract with Little Steel in 1942. He was a regular visitor to the White House in Franklin Roosevelt's administration. But he still thinks labor should stand on its own feet. His philosophy: "What the Government gives the Government can take away." He has become wary of Harry Truman...
...dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider the sponsor's product before signing a contract. Probable taboos: laxative ads, political blurbs, singing commercials...