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...steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from 1952 to 1955, he mellowed Big Steel's attitude to organized labor, increased U.S. Steel's massive capacity by nearly 35% while effectively defending bigness in steel to become known to a generation...
...really need doing. The payroll costs, although formidable, are less important than the price paid in sluggishness of decision and action." The really effective top civil service and sub-Cabinet officials should be kept in Government service by paying them more, and better people should be attracted to temporary high-level jobs by easing conflict-of-interest laws, which Jackson termed "pointless impediments to public service...
...this year than it did in the 1958 recovery. Management is also keeping costs down by a more cautious approach to the hiring of higher-salaried executives and technicians. Says a Federal Reserve Board economist: "Managers are adding only in case of real need. They know that once these high-level men are hired, they cannot be laid off the way wage workers...
...black Mercedes 300's roll by, carrying wurst-stuffed tycoons to Rosemary's love nest, but the action inside resembles a high-level business conference. Once those Marks have changed hands, the camera shifts elsewhere...
...high-level Kenyan politician who is closely connected to that country's program for sending students to the United States spent yesterday on a tour of the University...