Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s unemployment rally in Washington last month. Labor Secretary James Mitchell promised to publicly eat his hat if October figures did not drop unemployment to 3,000,000 and raise employment to 67 million. Still to go: six months, a rise of 2,000,000 employed and a cut of 625,000 unemployed. It began to look as though Jim Mitchell's hat was safe...
...where does it count?" This, alas, is a problem both for Steiner and Zane. Where does one draw a distinction between the moral and immoral? Neither Wyeth, Steiner, nor Zane seems to be particularly concerned with this question except to the extent that they raise it, then let it drop...
...Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald, a prerace favorite, was less fortunate, being forced to drop out when a flying cinder lodged in his eye. Cathcart, who took second and will go to England, is not considered in the same class as Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's misfortune could have been avoided by a more judicious selection of starters; no more than three of the seven men entered had earned the right to compete...
Productivity is a key talking point for both sides in steel bargaining. Last month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that steelworker productivity had dropped 6.2% from 1956 through 1958, and most of the drop (5.1%) was in 1958. Answered Dave McDonald last week: "An enormous error." He calculated the respective declines at only 3% and 1.9%. B.L.S. hastily double-checked, admitted with embarrassment a "clerical error." A bureaucrat had substituted the total of stainless steel ingots shipped (18,443 tons in 1958) for the total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week...
...Bethlehem Steel President Arthur B. Homer said that, barring a long strike, the industry's pickup in production would continue; for U.S. Steel and the industry second-quarter production will run between 90% and 95% of capacity. Blough said the rate of production, barring a strike, would drop "somewhat" in the third quarter but "would continue reasonably good because there's been a recovery in the economy that involves an increase in consumption by our customers." And for the fourth quarter production "ought to be better than the third." The signs point to total industry production of between...