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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of union delegates in Detroit's Tuller Hotel last week. Reuther told how he set out to establish the guaranteed annual wage (G.A.W.) in the automobile industry: "We decided General Motors was the easiest place to get money from, because it has the most, but the most difficult to pioneer with on principle. Ford is the easiest place to make progress on principle. So we decided on the strategy of implementing the principle we expected to establish at Ford with the money we get from...
During the excitement of the so-called "Age of Suspicion" of the past seven years, traditional conceptions of "academic freedom" have ramified so quickly that it has often been difficult to sort out basic issues from special cases. Definition, examination, and often agonizing reappraisal, however, have slowly had their effect. Along with the much-discussed scars of conformity and fear, introspection caused by the investigations has probably also brought a generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee...
...example, he writes "...I would find it difficult to justify Professor Furry's refusal to disclose, to the authorized government authorities, the identity fo his five fellow members in the Party while he was working for the Army Signal Corps... this affair lies so close to the security of the state that I believe a citizen with knowledge off its details should put that information in the Government's hands...
...sharply critical report on the U.S. titanium program. The much-touted miracle metal for jet engines, said the committee, is not living up to its advance billing. Though planemakers need titanium badly, the metal is so costly (current price: $7,000 to $8,000 a ton) and so difficult to fabricate that "production is running far ahead of demand." As a result, the General Services Administration has already stockpiled 4,000 tons of excess titanium at a cost of $36 million, may have to buy another 5,100 tons over the next year...
...essays on American economics seem obvious or dated; his discourses on politics are marred by errors of a sort that never appeared in America Comes of Age. Yet, minor inaccuracies notwithstanding, he can hit off a brisk two-page thumbnail of F.D.R. with a degree of objectivity difficult for an American to attain. France's No. 1 living authority on the U.S. has written the sort of Socratic book about America that, he would argue, America itself cannot easily produce...