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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago the Army canceled its contract, made Constellations available to airlines. Now Hughes and Frye will get the first twelve Constellations before the other lines get any. By the time Pan Am et al get theirs, TWA expects to have such a start that the postwar air race will be just a vapor trail...
...want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
...these humiliations Lou Ruppel bore patiently. He could afford to: his two-year contract (including a $10,000 bonus for signing) totaled $90,000. Last week, with 13 months of Ruppel's contract still to run, Hearst had been unable to humiliate Ruppel into quitting. Hearst finally...
...union had timed its stroke with the care of a general planning an invasion. It could hardly have picked a better time for itself, a worse one for G.M. Swamped by $2 billion in contract cancellations immediately after V-J day, G.M. had sweated and strained to reconvert its 102 plants all over the U.S. It had the biggest job of all U.S. industry; some 35% of the entire reconversion job of the nation. By working night & day, G.M. had cleared acres of tools from its plants, nearly completed installation of hundreds of miles of conveyors, set up dozens...
...union's G.M. division, and master strategist of the union, who blueprinted the attack on G.M. A onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...