Word: girdlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girdler is going into the aircraft business-temporarily at least. Last week he was named chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Vultee Aircraft, Inc. which, by recently swallowing Consolidated (TIME, Dec. 8), promises to become the General Motors of U.S. aircraft...
...plant also completes a reshuffle of the electric steel lineup. Tom Girdler's Republic is now far & away the biggest producer, with 1,322,000 tons capacity on hand or on order. First for many years, Timken Roller Bearing now runs a poor second with 356,000 tons. Third is specialty steelmaker Crucible with 261,000 tons...
Cried Republic Steel's Tom Girdler: "I'll go back to the farm and dig potatoes before I sign with the C.I.O." That was in 1937, during the "Little Steel" strike. Last week, like Bethlehem Steel and Henry Ford before him, Girdler signed...
...agreement, evidence to the New Deal of Tom Girdler's eagerness to get ahead with national defense, is a formal recognition of collective bargaining procedure, in effect at most of Republic's plants for the last two years. It requires Republic to dispense with elections, accept a certificate by the National Labor Relations Board that C.I.O. has a majority in eleven of the company's 15 plants, including South Chicago. Certificate will be issued after an NLRB check of payrolls against union membership. Other provisions: 1) S.W.O.C. may petition for certification in other plants; 2) workers fired...
...more desire to cooperate with his rivals on price matters than had the young Henry Ford (who has not joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association to this day). For lone Weirwolves, the high-cost atmosphere of the A.I.S.I. is oppressive. But Mr. Weir will continue to confront Messrs. Fairless, Grace, Girdler, et al. at the councils of Steel's Defense Committee, the body which really represents steel in its dealings with Washington...