Word: deadly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Detroit's pessimism, like its unemployment, is more than merely a symptom of the U.S.'s current recession. The recession only made chronic trouble acute. Memories of dead or departed auto companies-Hudson, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer-remind Detroiters that trouble in the auto industry can have something to do with bad management. "You know," says a businessman, "when we were the arsenal of democracy, there was a great premium put on inefficiency of operation. The more payroll a company had, the more profit it would make on the cost-plus arrangement. And when the war ended, there...
...their followers shouted and threatened publicly, some top conservative leaders have privately reached quite different conclusions. Last week one of the most influential talked with a realistic candor that would have shocked his noisy partisans. Said he: "Personally I have long been convinced that the time of colonialism is dead. You can't stand in the way of people who want to manage their own affairs. In Algeria there has been enough blood, enough ruin...
...There are ways that do not lead to such dead ends for the scientist, but they are difficult ways. One is the way of a Conant or a Killian: deliberately to enter into the experiences and to assume the responsibilities and the disciplines that have to do with the art of human relations. The product of this dual discipline, in the scientist-statesman, can be one of our most valuable public servants in times like this. "For those who do not have a genius for the double task, there is another choice. This is simply to put their truth...
...Dead Serious." G.M. countered by calling for a continuation of the present contract, which would provide a flat 6% yearly wage boost, no additional benefits and no profit-sharing. Automakers speculated that Reuther himself has little hope of winning a profit-sharing agreement, is only using it as leverage in the main fight for a hefty wage raise, despite all his "dead serious" talk of finding "a way by which wage earners can achieve their equity, their measure of social and economic justice." Reuther may even have trouble gaining much of a pay boost. With skidding sales, the industry...
...Internal Revenue, showed newsmen five samples of letters he has been receiving: 1) "In accordance with instructions, I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope"; 2) "I'm forwarding my marriage certificate and my six children"; 3) "I am happy to report that my husband is dead"; 4) "Unless I get my refund money very soon, I will be forced to lead an immortal life"; 5) "You changed my boy to a girl-will this make any difference...