Word: janning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...issue of Jan. 4, 1960, TIME will reveal the identity of its 23rd Man of the Year-the person who, for good or evil, most powerfully influenced the course of events...
...Offer. The loss to the Government will be greater if the steelworkers walk out again Jan. 26. as they promise to do unless a contract is signed. Trying for a settlement, the eleven-company negotiating committee secretly submitted a better offer while negotiations were recessed. The new offer 1) raised the management proposal on wage increases and fringe benefits slightly (to 30? an hour by the companies' reckoning, spread over three years); 2) increased cost-of-living increases to a maximum of 8? v. 3? previously offered, and 3) proposed a two-man union and management committee...
...Warning. Formal mediation meetings will be resumed after Thanksgiving, but unionists feel that the companies' offer is not likely to be materially raised. If not accepted by the union leadership, the Taft-Hartley law requires submitting management's final offer to a secret-ballot membership vote between Jan. 5 and Jan. 26. After that, the union leadership could still order the men out on strike again, whether the vote was favorable...
...away, where they came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...
...valor, suffering and death of Commander Davis on Jan. 6, 1945, three days before the troop landings at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, were to be duplicated by scores of other Navy officers and men in the seven-month liberation of the Philippines. With the backbone of its naval power snapped in the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958), the Japanese turned full power on their last desperate tactic, the suicidal kamikaze corps. If books had theme songs, the kamikaze Song of the Warrior might serve as an apt motif for this 13th volume of Samuel Eliot Morison...