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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention, Secretary of Labor James Mitchell said that the Administration would have "no alternative" but to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act-and send the strikers back to work for 80 days-if the strike did not end soon. He also warned the steel companies that they were being very "shortsighted" in not finding a means to end the strike. If the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked, and there was no settlement during the 80-day period, Mitchell said that legislation "inimical" to the steel companies might well be passed by Congress...
...generator: more electrical energy at idling and low speeds, longer battery life. Initially, the Valiant (priced at about $2,000 plus taxes, but no extras) will be offered in a four-door sedan, with two and three seat station wagon models to follow by year's end...
...Because of late delivery of the planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months of 1959 to 702 flights...
United expects to have 16 DC-8s in service by the year's end, 40 by June 1961, plus 18 medium-haul Boeing 720s. By next June "Pat" Patterson is confident that United's jet service will catch up to the competition...
...alike and are fond of boasting of their superiority over their decadent and vicious neighbors. An Etruscan says, "It's true that you Romans are generous and merciful. But you go about your deeds of kindness so ungraciously that you seem more brutal than savages." In the end, the Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne...