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...they went on shift in Fontana, Calif., last week, 7,000 employees of the Kaiser Steel Corp. stopped off at improvised polling booths at the plant gates. By an overwhelming 74% vote, the Kaiser workers agreed to give a four-year trial to an experimental labor contract that may ultimately alter the tone of collective bargaining...
...river traffic is still in commonplace bulk items for which barge rates are unbeatably low (an average of 2 mills a ton. v. 16 mills by rail and 6.5?by truck). Grain barges moving down to New Orleans from Minneapolis pass inbound South American bauxite ore moving upriver to Kaiser, Alcoa and Olin Mathieson aluminum plants on the Ohio. The bauxite ore is transshipped from seagoing ships at New Orleans, but recently Captain Jesse Brent, head of a Greenville, Miss, towing company, bought a shallow-draft, 180-ft. vessel in which he hauls insecticides, feed and fertilizers direct from Memphis...
Among industrialists, such company chairmen as Frederic Donner (General Motors), Roger Blough (U.S. Steel), Joseph Block (Inland Steel), Carter Burgess (American Machine & Foundry), Charles Percy (Bell & Howell), such presidents as Edgar Kaiser (Kaiser Industries), J. Paul Austin (Coca-Cola), Thomas Jones (Northrop...
...year. Faced with this prospect, which the economists have dourly christened "high-level stagnation." U.S. businessmen in 1962 increasingly looked abroad to markets where millions for the first time had money to spend for much beyond the bare necessities. ''When the aluminum market went soft at home." says Kaiser Aluminum's Chairman Edgar Kaiser, "we almost made up for it by the volume of our business in England...
Dermatologists at Kaiser Foundation Hospital discovered that both mother and son had been infected with a microbe that is close kin to the bacillus of tuberculosis. Theirs were the first reported cases, say Dr. Sheldon Swift and Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...