Word: currently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we are in an inflation-conscious mood, we might as well decide to be realistic about the current labor-management negotiations in the steel industry. As long as management is free to set its own prices, why should they bother to do anything else than follow the time-honored pattern of putting up a noisy but purely token fight? All they need do is haggle awhile and then give in. It is the public's money that they are bargaining with...
...sugar, rum, coffee and bananas, the islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume. But most hotels are still of mosquito-net, pre-Hilton vintage...
...insurance companies from $319 million this year to $500 million. The bill had the endorsement of 34 life insurance companies who write 70% of U.S. life insurance. They would have had to pay even more under an old tax formula, which was to take effect again this year when current stopgap formulas expire...
...persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected ex-President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, known as "The Man Who Never Smiles," and strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) Pedro Teotonio Pereira, Salazar's right-hand man and current Minister of the Presidency. Pereira once quarreled with Salazar but has since made his peace with him. Both men are considered more liberal than Salazar...
...professor objects to the blanket rule that has been the policy of the Corporation since Lowell. For the Corporation, this is just a practical financial measure that is completely impersonal. They can only afford to contribute a certain amount to scientific research and they prefer to give assistance to current professors. Bridgman himself has never lodged an official complaint as he feels "it doesn't put a man in a pleasant position to have to urge the value of his own contributions." But he feels that a more flexible retirement plan would not force a man to leave his work...