Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Budd, the "president of railroad presidents," obeyed one of his own rules and announced last week that a new man would be running the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad on Sept. i. A Budd-made regulation requires executives of the fourth longest U.S. railroad system to retire when they reach...
...weeks in the spring of 1948 while John L. Lewis' coal strike was on. Instead, Olds contented himself with asserting that Big Steel's ability to pay had nothing to do with the case. Said he: "There is no justification at this time for a fourth round . . . I do not believe it would be good for the economy...
While the Manhattan hearings held the spotlight, the Administration itself struck an oblique blow for a fourth round of wage raises. Under the Walsh-Healey Act it has the power to set minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...
Field Work. In Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Vivien Nelson, filling out her fourth marriage-license application, listed her occupation as "bridal consultant...
...fourth, with Bolanos still on his feet, his manager jumped into the ring waving a towel. A moment later, the challenger slumped to the canvas and Referee Dempsey stopped the fight. The show would probably not have made an edifying spectacle for Costello's foundation kids, but it proved that Ike Williams still had the lightweight division well in hand...