Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some form of guaranteed annual wage in current negotiations, Ford said: "Today, both management and workers know that a major strike could dump the applecart of our present and prospective high prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation of what has been a generally happy and profitable period. We wish...
Just outside the gateway to Milan's 33rd annual fair last week, an enormous yellow sign bore the proud legend: "1945-1955-ten years of work for a free and respected fatherland.' Inside, at the biggest industrial fair in Italian history, were the results of Italy's postwar labors, helped by some $3 billion in U.S. funds. Stretching over 100 acres were futuristic exhibit halls and brightly painted booths of 9,400 Italian firms-and 4,000 foreign companies that wanted to sell in Italy's expanding markets. In the two weeks of the fair, some...
Help from the South. The Milan fair was an accurate reflection of Italy's growing boom. Gross national product jumped by 5% last, year, even though drought lopped 2 billion tons from the normal 9 billion ton wheat harvest; industrial production was up nearly 10%. Crude-steel production topped 4,000,000 tons and auto production increased to 215,000 cars and trucks, both alltime records. An important new oilfield has been tapped on the Adriatic coast, while Sicily's Ragusa field (TIME, Jan. 25, 1954) has four producing wells, with a fifth...
...transfer their net profit home without currency restrictions. If they liquidate their business, they can send both profits and capital home on a three-month notice, must keep only 10% of the total in Iran for six months to meet any possible claims. Finally, in case of nationalization, "fair and adequate" compensation will be given to foreign investors, and they will be allowed to take out the bulk of their investment...
...words. Simon made every syllable perfectly clear. He was joined by soprano Ann Hollander and the two viols in an extraordinarily moving performance of the deservedly popular Ich sag ade; but why, the second time through, did they choose to end in the middle? The six instrumentalists turned in fair jobs, with the exception of Ich stund an cinem Morgen, whose rhythmic complexities, even on a second try, seemed to preclude staying together...