Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead loomed a real threat to the economic health built up over the past twelve months: the United Steelworkers' demands for fat "general contract improvement" when current contracts with the steel companies run out on June 30. (Since January the Steelworkers have been running weekly newspaper advertisements touting the national economic benefits that would flow from an "Extra Billion Dollars" in Steelworkers' hands.) Big wage or fringe-benefit boosts in steel, with or without a strike, might well touch off a new wage-price spiral. Against that threat President Eisenhower gave stern warning at his news conference last...
Coal deposits at El Turbio are estimated at 400 million tons, enough to supply Argentina for two centuries. Frondizi's government coal monopoly has signed a $42 million contract with a French company to triple last year's 250,000-ton output. And prospectors from Argentina's Atomic Energy Commission have found rich uranium deposits...
...Trailing midway through the final round at Seattle, the bridge team headed by B. Jay Becker rallied strongly to overtake Charles Goren's team and win the Vanderbilt Cup, one of the most prized trophies in U.S. contract bridge, earned the right to represent the U.S. in the 1960 World Bridge Olympiad in Rome...
...preliminary hearing before General Manager Rudolf Bing and his panel to decide what they should sing in the finals, then rehearsed under Conductor Kurt Adler. With that preparation, they walked onto the Meistersinger set (already in place for an evening performance) to compete for the big prize: a contract with...
...consumers have long memories. They remember the copper shortages of several years ago, which were politically rather than economically caused." Strikes have already shut one U.S. smelter and threatened the big mines of Northern Rhodesia. Copper buyers are also hedging the possibility of a strike June 30, when the contract of the International Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers expires. Thus copper experts expect the price to go still higher. But when labor peace is assured, they think it will settle down, because current refinery capacity of upwards of 2,000,000 tons is more than enough, even if business picks...