Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...
...David Slater, the rake from upstairs with a weakness for "steak, liquor, and sex--in that order," Frederick Morehouse is at his best with a sarcastic line or a subtle piece of business. When he orders his steak ("blood rare") or mixes a martini he brings the house down. However, his voice frequently becomes strident in an attempt to capture the English accent and he underplays perhaps too much...
...relations has changed since Blough took over the company from Benjamin F. Fairless in 1955. Unlike Ben Fairless. who used to tour the steel mills with McDonald, Blough believes in keeping the union brass at a distance, never hesitates to take on the union in public. His hard new line is no quickly thought-up policy; as long ago as last fall, he met with other steel executives to work out the strategy for holding the line on the union...
...fight a two-front war. He not only had to fend off McDonald but, like any man who has put together a grand alliance, also had to keep the other steel companies united behind him. Both Blough and McDonald knew that if one company broke from line and made a private settlement, all the others would have to follow. McDonald has scurried about in search of an opening in management's ranks, tried time and again to sit down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating, has kept his alliance together. He went...
...Realities. The new line in steel is based on what Blough deeply believes are the changing realities in the U.S. steel industry and the whole U.S. economy. One of these is the great danger of a never ending inflationary spiral from continuous boosts in wages and steel prices. But more important to the steel industry itself is the threat, for the first time in this century, of serious competition from abroad...