Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auto Workers' President Walter Philip Reuther to a U.A.W. national convention in Detroit last week. But this time Reuther wove no spell of oratorical magic. What he did do was get 3,200 U.A.W. delegates to approve his 1958 set of demands for the auto industry's contract negotiations opening early in April. Items as approved...
...President Harlow Curtice to attend the convention, and debate the new proposals and Reuther's position that the only thing wrong with the country economically is "a serious imbalance" between expanded productive power and lagging purchasing power-correctible in U.A.W.'s case by signing a fat new contract. But Curtice wrote that he could "make our position clear without a personal appearance." The nation, said Curtice, is afraid U.A.W. will make wage demands not "tailored to the economic facts of life." As a start toward restoring public confidence, Curtice asked U.A.W. to renew its present G.M. contract...
Last summer, when he and his wife were living mostly on Tootsie Rolls, Jimmie wangled a spot on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, won a recording contract. He has just finished his second LP album, is talking about his first movie-and is still unable to read a note of music. He learns most of his songs by memorizing what comes blaring over the car radio...
...Myers, 36, had righteously proclaimed that he would stay put. But after 2,229 Aggie students sent him a pleading telegram and a pair of cadet emissaries came to call, Myers switched horses ("I don't feel I've doublecrossed myself"), signed a four-year contract with the Texans wortu around $60,000 a year...
THIS is the beginning of a revolution in swine raising," said Kansas City, Mo. Packer Arthur B. Maurer last week. The revolution: a new way of raising hogs called contract farming. Contract farming, though new to the pork industry, is not new to U.S. agriculture; it was started in the canning industry years ago. But its rapid spread in recent years to other sections of the farm economy has caused some enthusiasts to feel that it may go a long way toward solving the farm problem, since its aim is to increase the income of farmers by cutting their costs...