Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campaign. At the start of the strike, the big steel companies, led by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, laid down a demand of their own: in return for even a modest boost in wages and fringe benefits, the union would have to agree to contract changes to "cut the cost of steelmaking." With high labor costs squeezing U.S. steel out of foreign markets (TIME, July 20), the steel companies had a solid argument for holding costs down. Revelations of corruption in the labor movement had weakened organized labor's influence. And the U.S. public was fed up with price...
...year wage and benefits increase of 28½? down to a 19¾? package-the level at which California's Edgar Kaiser had urged his fellow steel men to settle. Industry's Cooper stonily told the fact finders that McDonald's package would really cost 33?, and the proposal was "unacceptable"; in its place he stood on a threeyear, 30? package (which the steelworkers said was worth only 14½ over the next two years) and put forward an industry proposal to submit the demand for work-rule changes to binding arbitration. McDonald called this proposal "phony...
Controlled experiments to determine the feasibility of various cost-reducing plans in the House dining halls will start in November. The experiments will help to evaluate new methods of food serving, such as pre-filled trays or complete self-service...
...present program bans night parking of those vehicles in the area of the old House Squash Courts to lessen the noise near Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot. As a compensation, the new lot, parking in which will cost a nominal fee, is to be built...
...National Institute of Health contributed over $855,000 for the construction of the 60-man laboratory, with the Program for Harvard College and private donations financing the rest of the cost. Secretary Flemming also praised this cooperation, stating that the federal government "should continue to help finance expansion at institutes of higher learning without undermining their academic freedom." "A partnership symbolized by this building has developed between the government and higher education," the Secretary commented. He expressed the hope that the Government would continue to sponsor construction by American colleges "to help young people realize their best potentialities...