Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pipe tobacco for what looked likely to be a lengthy siege, white-maned United Steelworkers' President David John McDonald last week set down his price for peace in steel: "More!" Among other things, McDonald's 171-man wage and policy committee asked for "substantial wage increases, modernized cost-of-living adjustments, a shorter work week, additional holidays, greater vacation benefits and improved supplemental unemployment benefits, insurance benefits, pensions...
...prevent revival of the rebel faction that tried to bounce him in 1957. Last week more mutinous mutterings rose from McDonald's ranks. Pollster Samuel Lubell found that many a steelworker genuinely fears a steel strike, is lukewarm to demands for greater wages, fearing that they might cost him his job (TIME, May 4). To refute Lubell, McDonald arranged for seven of his wage-policy committeemen to stand up in public meeting and demand hefty wage raises. Said one: "A lynching bee would look like a Sunday-school picnic compared to what my members would...
...HILTON HOTEL in San Francisco will feature parking facilities for guests' cars on same floor as their rooms. Ramps from special automobile lobby will lead to 400 parking spaces on seven floors of 18-story building, to be completed by end of 1961 at cost of $25 million...
...rich man's whim (there were only 28,300 pools, including commercial ones, five years ago), swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools to be built at a cost of $750 million, 46,000 will be private pools, and the total in the nation will rise to more than...
...country. Construction in northeast and midwest states (where pools often double as skating rinks in winter) will increase on an average of 70% over last year, and in southwest and mountain states a 61% increase in construction is expected in 1959. A 20-ft. by 40-ft. pool that cost $15,000 before World War II can now be bought...