Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week presented union demands to the aluminum industry, whose contracts lapse July 31. Dave McDonald wants the same windfall for his 32,000 aluminum members as for his 500,000 steel-industry members: a three-year contract with a 15? hourly wage-and-benefit boost every year, plus cost-of-living hikes. The U.S. aluminum industry is softer than steel; if management accedes to a neat compromise package-perhaps iof an hour-it might speed a settlement in steel. If not, the aluminum workers may soon join the Steelworkers on the picket line...
...highest-priced-and most exotic-menus in high-priced Manhattan, in league with Chambord, Le Pavilion, Colony, Brussels, "21." A typical dinner for two, from Sweet and Sour Pike in Tarragon Aspic ($2.25) through Piccata of Piglet in Pastry ($5.25), to genuine Violets in Summer Snow ($1.75), can easily cost up to $70 with drinks and tips. Seasonal foods and delicacies from all over the world are rushed to the restaurant by plane; its $100,000 wine cellar holds 15,000 bottles. If a visitor can not wait for the fun to begin, he can pluck a free sausage...
Saved: $19 Million. Founded in 1857, North German Lloyd was one of the world's major passenger carriers before World War II; its queenly Europa and Bremen IV competed with British and French ships on equal terms. But the war cost the line 99.5% of its tonnage. The task of reconstruction fell to brisk Director Richard Bertram, 55, and pfennig-pinching Co-Director Johannes Kulen-kampff, fiftyish, who personally picks through the company's discarded files to salvage used paper clips...
Five years ago, they decided to ease back into the passenger business, started off with the 19,100-ton Swedish hospital ship Gripsholm (cost: $2,500,000) to save the time and money of building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years ago from the French Pasteur, which had been launched in 1939. Lloyd rebuilt her completely at an overall cost of $25 million. Says Bertram: "The same ship would cost $44 million starting from scratch, and we wouldn't get delivery before 1963." Entering New York harbor last week, Bremen...
...whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish boys seldom learned to swim, says Golden, because the waterfront lay deep in Irish territory. The immigrants had an enormous respect for learning, and in every photography studio, the appropriate props...