Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murray's decision brought only a postponement of the deadlock over steel, not a solution. The Steelworkers' demands for increased wages and benefits (variously estimated at from 30? to 50? an hour) will go next week before the Wage Stabilization Board. There it will be up to Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam to find the final answer to a three-horned poser: 1) Phil Murray's determination to get more of an increase than present wage stabilization policies allow; 2) Big Steel's determination to yield nothing to labor without a steel price increase...
...Communists agreed that these proposals represented "a step forward." Next day, however, they rejected them. They still wanted complete freedom of action in the matter of the airfields. And so deadlock settled down again...
...added up to one of the gloomiest holiday seasons Harry Truman had ever faced. Behind him the rising tide of scandal pressed closer; ahead loomed the steel deadlock, which might bring the sharpest economic crisis of the year. The President ducked his weekly press conference, labored grimly through the week over his messages on the State of the Union and the budget. This week he boarded his plane for a short respite in Independence, a sorely troubled King Augeas, with not a Hercules in sight...
Stainless-Steel Logic. Fairless' stainless-steel logic somewhat outshone the fact that Big Steel's stand was just as stubborn as Phil Murray's. By refusirig to make any counter-offer at all, it was making deadlock inevitable. Furthermore, it left the Government's price controllers with the responsibility for breaking the dike against inflation, if it is to be broken...
...only other House hockey game yesterday, Kirkland and Lowell fought to a 3 to 3 deadlock. Dan Getchell scored twice for the Deacons. Winthrop and Eliot meet in the only hockey match scheduled for today...