Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaints about De Koning's rough, highhanded labor tactics. When De Koning ("I ain't afraid of no one") moved in to take over control of the raceway's employees, Hathway set his reporters to work. Newsday discovered that De Koning's union members, to hold their jobs at the track, were forced to kick back part of their salaries, buy tickets at exorbitant prices to dances and dinners laid on by De Koning, and buy $50-a-page ads in the union's journal, owned by De Koning. Newsday also publicized De Koning...
Next month, the U.S. Tariff Commission will hold hearings to see what can be done about the slump. Most of the mine owners want a higher tariff. They argue that lead and zinc mining are essential to U.S. defense, that in time of war foreign supplies might be cut off. But that is not a strong argument, since more than 75% of zinc and 50% of lead imports come from Canada and Mexico. In any case, the Tariff Commission can only boost the tariff by about a cent a Ib.; what the miners want is a sliding scale that would...
...drop in RCA stock. Under a stock option, exercised last February when RCA stock sold at 29, Sarnoff bought 100,000 shares and Folsom bought 50,000 at 17¾ as a long-term investment, with money borrowed from the banks. But during the six months they had to hold the stock under SEC regulations, the market price tumbled. Pressed by the banks, they were forced to sell 105,000 shares in all, for a profit of roughly $290,000, taxable at only 26%, compared to the $1,180,000 profit they had on paper last February...
Reserve Lieutenant Milo J. Radulovich, a 26-year-old physics student at the University of Michigan, stands accused of being too poor a security risk to hold an Air Force Commission. Not that there is doubt as to his personal conduct. The Review Board emphasized that his loyalty appeared properly fervent. But several informants had alleged that his father, an emigre from Serbia and a retired automobile worker, habitually read Communist newspapers, both domestic and from his homeland. The Lieutenant's sister, moreover, was identified as a Communist sympathizer and a frequent fixture of picketlines...
Freshmen will hold the first class function of their University lives Saturday night. The newly-elected Union Committee has scheduled an informal dance after the Dartmouth game...