Word: itness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watch the Boss. Much of the bickering was over a campaign by both sides to win the Steelworkers' secret vote on industry's last offer, required by the Taft-Hartley Act some time between Jan. 6 and Jan. 21. Out from the eleven negotiating steel companies went letters...
The vote will probably be no-as it has always been in such cases-but industry was gambling that there would be enough yeses to embarrass McDonald. In any case, union leaders are not bound by the vote; they can call another strike even if workers want to accept the...
Too Much Too Soon. In Washington, high Government officials admitted that they are appalled by the mulish stubbornness of both sides, but privately they tended to blame management more. They feel that management is trying to do too much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now...
Blockade Runners. World War I only made Philips grow bigger faster. To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships. With the home market protected from competition, the brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for...
Freeze Out? Until lately the company has hidden its U.S. light by operating in the U.S. through several affiliates. Recently, it merged three into one company, Consolidated Electronics, which starts out with $90 million in sales. In 1958 the Antitrust Division cited Philips among a dozen companies accused of freezing...