Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serpents in the Elms. But this did not quiet things down on Astor Street. Reporters need telephones. So half a dozen telephone company trucks roared up, electricians swarmed up into the Blair elms, foremen raced up & down the street, cables streamed out of the trees like boa constrictors, and nine pay-telephone booths were set up outside the garden wall. A mobile unit with six more pay phones hummed at the curb...
Patton found that top management salaries between 1939 and 1950 increased less than those of any other working group. In eleven years, management salaries rose 35%, while those of foremen rose 83% and hourly and white-collar workers, 106%. The relatively small executive increases, plus heavy taxes in the high-salary brackets, cut down executives' real purchasing power 59% while hourly and white-collar workers had a rise...
...steel mill or coal mine. By arrangement with Pardue's good friend and parishioner, Ben Moreell, president of Jones & Laughlin, parsons-to-be will learn their way around the blast furnaces and Bessemers as ordinary laborers. As many as possible will live in the homes of foremen and mill hands...
Even some small campuses are seeing the color of corporate money. Ohio's Wittenberg College has persuaded nearby businesses to finance a series of economics and management classes for their foremen and supervisors. Mills College in California has received $150,000 from corporations-and "that," says President Lynn White Jr., "would have been impossible five years...
...again the next morning, and by this time the group may have grown to 25 or so, with a few vice presidents. But in the plant the officers will step aside; it's the foremen's show. I'll meet every foreman and his assistant, shake hands, inquire after their families. Wednesday night we'll have a family dinner, as we call it, and all the heads of the company will be there. It won't be boisterous; we're all business. I'll give them a little talk about things going...