Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial step, the organizers drew up a petition of demands and circulated it among the workers. It called for a minimum wage of $1.65, which represented a 35-cent raise for most of the workers. It also demanded time and a half for overtime, Blue Cross-Blue Shield coverage, creation of a procedure of dealing with worker grievances, seniority provisions, and recognition of the union as a collective bargaining agent...
Intrigued now by the challenge of politics, Brooke rejected an offer to join Governor John Volpe's staff, instead asked to be appointed chairman of the Boston Finance Commission, a municipal watchdog group that had not barked in years. Brooke drew headline after headline as commission evidence led to the dismissal of some city officials...
...Eastern drew chuckles from other airlines six years ago when it put 28 aging, piston-engine Constellations in shuttle service between Boston, New York and Washington. When passengers found they could drop in and fly on a guaranteed-seat, pay-on-the-plane basis, the other lines nearly dropped out of sight. Eastern now has 79% of Boston-New York business, compared with about 18% for Northeast (which is be ginning to phase in jets on the route) and a minuscule 3% for American...
Harvard evokes a mixed reaction from the Wellesley girls. The questionnaire drew such descriptions as "stuffy phonies, pompous, self-centered, neurotic, and holier-than-thou," although a good three-quarters of the girls prefer dating boys from Harvard than any other school. Despite these unkindnesses, Wellesley girls did have some more respectful things to say about Harvard: "More intelligent, less standard preppy, more urban, individualistic, sophisticated, more confidence...
...years ago by Denver Banker William M.B. Berger, 41, who had the bright-and right-idea that Section 351 (a), which had been drawn to allow the tax-free transfers of property to a new corporation in exchange for stock, could also apply to individual stockholders. His Centennial Fund drew 191 investors, who pooled securities worth $25,800,000. Berger's idea has been widely copied. Boston's Vance, Sanders & Co. operates four funds currently worth $311.2 million. Pittsburgh Fund Manager John F. Donahue, 42, a West Point graduate and onetime SAC pilot, will, with six new funds...