Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signing Kaiser-style contracts with Detroit Steel Corp. and Granite City Steel Co., small companies (less than 1% of U.S. capacity each) that have been operating throughout the strike on union-granted contract extensions. But McDonald's drive never got beyond the easy pickings of the minors, soon hit the stiffened wall of major company resistance. Top steel negotiators declared that the Kaiser contract 1) would cost non-Kaiser companies nearly half again as much, 2) provided contract reopening in 1961, which was "intolerable to all," and 3) left work rules to be settled "on a case-by-case...
...collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile chum, Wisconsin's Kennedy-leaning Senator William Proxmire. Invading Milwaukee for a speech, Morse lashed out at the "gutless wonders" and "phony liberals" who had voted for "the Kennedy-Landrum-Grifnn labor reform bill" (TIME, Sept. 14). Proxmire hit back: Morse's attack "indicates an unbalanced, arrogant extremism and speaks eloquently for the reform bill we passed." If Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller dropped by the White House for an hour-long...
...oral-aural method started under strange conditions. Just before the outbreak of World War II, the American Council of Learned Societies attempted to find a better way to teach esoteric languages, such as Mongolian or Hindi. With a paucity of teachers understanding these tongues, the Council hit upon the use of tape recorders and a direct approach to the language: Submerge the student in an atmosphere of the language from the very first by use of a recorded master voice and let him absorb the language gradually as does a child. This experiment rapidly expanded, however, with the start...
Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61 hit back at Faculty objections to committee proposals by challenging his critics to read the report before commenting on it. "We are banking on the broadmindedness of the Masters," he said, "and we hope they won't reject our recommendations without reading them...
...buoyant third period pushed Ford's nine-month earnings to $6.19 per share. Studebaker-Packard had a third-period net of $3,399,779, or 53? per share, v. a loss of $9,200,000 last year, pushed its nine-month earnings to $2.39 per share. Chrysler, hit hard by expansion and new model costs, reported a third-quarter loss of $34.2 million, highest in the company's history, cutting nine-month earnings to $2.73 per share...