Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost-of-living raise which General Motors gave the United Automobile Workers (see below) seemed to have settled the dust on the labor front. Chrysler ended its strike with a raise. Other companies seemed almost certain to follow suit. And the stockmarket, after years of acting half ashamed of itself, had suddenly become as confident as a vegetarian with a Lionel Strongfort exercise book...
...lights in Room 5-202 of Detroit's massive General Motors Building burned into the dawn one night last week. In that same room two years ago, the United Auto Workers' fiery Walter Reuther and G.M.'s management had cursed each other, touched off the fuse for a costly 113-day strike...
...Lift for Murray. The pattern was promptly adopted by others. Two days later the United Electrical Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed...
...Churchman, the nation's oldest religious journal, offered its annual "Good Will Award" to Secretary of State George Marshall last fall, a State Department aide readily accepted for the secretary. In previous years the award had gone to such distinguished figures as Madame Chiang Kaishek, Wendell Willkie and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Then someone took another look at The Churchman and its editor, Guy Emery Shipler...
...return of General Douglas MacArthur to his native land, after four years of war and three as master of Japan, will be an event. For a brief moment last week it looked as if that event were about to happen...