Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steelworkers' McDonald wanted most was to boost the average $2.47-an-hour pay of his union members by package benefits of some 20? in the coming year, while avoiding the encumbrances of the four-year-and-four-month master contract asked by the industry. (Without making a formal offer, the union let it be known that it might settle for a suitable three-year contract.) What steel's Stephens and the dozen companies most wanted was to keep package benefit increases to 14 or 15? an hour in the coming year, tie future raises−which steel claims...
Today the McDonalds live in a seven-room, three-bath fieldstone house in Mt. Lebanon, eight miles south of the Golden Triangle. They live unpretentiously, do little formal entertaining. But informal callers, mostly union men, are constant. At his office, McDonald exercises a prodigious memory, is a stickler for detail. His office furniture includes a dial-studded electric massage chair into which he sinks to be vibrated when he gets fatigued. His staff boasts that he "can work 35 men to exhaustion, but he irritates union wives by insisting that aides stay at home Sundays to be on call...
...Captains Carousing at Surinam lies a world away from such formal make-believe. Painter John Greenwood, a footloose Boston artist, showed the soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration...
...admission charge of about $1.00 per person, this season will feature six Friday evening dances--three phonograph-record mixers and three square dances--at the cost of only 25 cents per head. And as a sort of climactic note there will also be, for the first time, a semi-formal dance, which will take place in the Union on Friday, August 3. Admission charge will be $1.50 per couple, all Summer School students and their guests are invited, and all are presumably free to make their own definition of "semi-formal"--within bounds, of course...
...through to a style of his own. First clear-cut sign that he was going to be something more than just the son of a famous father was the national competition for the St. Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel the winner. The family broke out the traditional champagne to celebrate...