Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Management offered no concessions, not even a pledge that if the union held the line on wages the companies would hold the line on steel prices. The letter set forth that the Steelworkers have no ground for higher wages, no need to "catch up," because their wages have risen more than those of nearly all other industrial groups in recent years. Steel wages are now 38% above the average for all manufacturing, compared to 20% above in 1953; they average $3.03 an hour v. $2.19 for manufacturing workers generally. Well aware that steel profits will be fat, the steelmakers tried...
...game of musical chairs," he says. "The jet age is going to move everybody up a notch. There's a place for every plane at a price, but it's not all going to happen overnight. The phasing in and out all along the line will take two to five years...
Backlash. In Asheville, N.C., after a man walked out of George Huffmon's store with two fishing reels, George noticed that a hook had caught on the counter, followed the line out of the store and down the street two blocks into the coat pocket of Shoplifter Kyle Williams...
There is order in Belele and the surrounding desert because Major de Goltz creates it through simple brutality. His command is a native Mule Company of blacks, whom he keeps in line with regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak...
...Laugh Line (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). TV may not be the best of all possible worlds for those far-out explorers, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, but they are canny enough to survive in almost any climate; the show is based on their ad-libbed comments about contrived, oddball tableaux...