Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote among those most concerned, he likes to talk (as he did last week) about its being "sensible to recognize the situation prevailing in the world." Translated out of jargon, Khrushchev was arguing that the West might not like Russia's presence in East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the East Germans and East Europeans obviously didn't like it either, but the world had better get used to it. It could as easily be argued that West Berliners want no part of Soviet occupation, and it would be equally "sensible" for Russia "to recognize the situation...
...first time in history, two of the nation's four biggest airlines were downed by strikes-and a third was losing altitude fast. At Eastern Air Lines, 5,383 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out, along with 550 Eastern flight engineers. The Eastern strike and the walkout of machinists at Trans World Airlines (TIME, Dec. 1) shut down close to one-third of the nation's air transport system; 388 planes were grounded, and the 32,000 passengers they normally carry each day had to scramble to find other transportation. To make matters worse...
...Holding Out." The issues-and causes-were as complex as the fuel-flow system of a new 707 jet. Eastern's mechanics, like those at T.W.A., originally wanted a whacking 49? an hour across-the-board boost (present wage: $2.51). Both lines offered 41? an hour over three years, or what the union won after a 37-day strike against Capital Airlines last month. Since then. National Airlines (see below) has signed for 44? an hour, to match Capital's hourly wage...
...other phase of Eastern's strike is jurisdictional, an argument between the pilots' and engineers' unions over whether the "third man" in the cockpit shall be a pilot or an engineer (TIME, May 5). Eastern has agreed with the pilots' union that the engineer on pure jets should be a trained pilot also. It is willing to give its engineers pilot training at company expense, but the engineers say this is no help; as pilots, they will be at the bottom of seniority lists, will be laid off if the line starts reducing its crews because...
...About 22 eastern colleges have sent delegates to the conference, formed as an aftermath to Harvard's withdrawal from the NSA on the grounds that that organization's regional conferences contributed little to the solution of Harvard's own peculiar educational problems. Leland stated that the represented colleges at Columbia were "not so identical" as to preclude a genuine exchange of ideas...