Word: girdlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
Walt Disney, film-father of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, told how the Reds had first tried to put a crimp in World-Girdler* Mickey, the traveling salesman of the U.S. When the Disney studios went on strike in 1937, he said, Labor Leader Herbert Sorrell admitted that Communist money had financed the walkout...
...hearing did uncover one shocking fact. Last spring, when it was firmly resisting pressure to expand, the industry had assured its customers that the worst of the steel shortage would be over by year's end. Last week Fairless, along with Grace and Republic's Tom Girdler, predicted that the shortage would last at least two more years...
Penman's Progress. Some of the things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
Last week the bonus was knocked in the head again. Ohio's Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) common pleas court upheld a Republic stockholder's contention that the extra $51,000 was too much of a good thing, ordered bluff Tom Girdler to give it back. Judge Stanley L. Orr laid it on hot & heavy: the size of the bonus, said he, had depended not upon Girdler's devotion to duty, but upon the size of the profits that were left at the end of the year. "If such conduct were approved," he said, "directors might soon forget that...