Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Babies and bourbon drinkers were faced with the same problem last week. The supply of containers from which they get their nourishment was being rapidly diminished because of a strike by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Glass Bottle Blowers Association. The walkout by 44,000 employees had shut down 102 plants across the country that supply 90% of the nation's glass containers...
...strike, which has put such companies as Owens-Illinois, Brockway Glass and Anchor Hocking temporarily out of the glass business, started seven weeks ago and came after union and industry negotiators had agreed on a new three-year contract that would have provided a package of 710 an hour spread among wages, insurance, pensions and other benefits. Thus the strike was as much against Glass Blowers President Lee W. Minton, 56, as it was against the companies. Calling the proposed settlement "the best offer we've ever had in this industry," Minton urged his union to accept...
...cardboard cartons, which not all customers like. In some cases, switches are impractical. Whisky makers cannot use plastic, for instance, because the containers affect the taste of the liquor. And since blood and blood plasma, as well as many kinds of drugs, have to be shipped in glass, hospitals are threatened with a serious shortage of necessary supplies. Minton, who is now belatedly backing his striking union members, predicted that a strike settlement was going to take a long time. Said he: "Now maybe people will realize how important the glass industry...
...group has no future plans. Glass indicated that things will be "up in the air" until Rockefeller makes his expected declaration this week...
...THOMSON: Senator, let me throw out a quick comment on that. It belongs so clearly in the crystal ball realm that anyone who would pretend to give you an answer is deluding himself. We see through a glass darkly here, and any pretense to an understanding of who will suc-Mao--and even if we knew who he was, what he would do--involves self-delusion...