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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list of 800,000), the auto industry sent big men: a General Motors vice president, a Ford vice president, and a Chrysler industrial-relations executive. One reason: Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters truck most of America's cars from assembly points to dealerships around the country...
...younger sons usually leave home as soon as they are wed because they stand little chance of getting anything from father's estate after big brother is through with it). After him comes mother, who is the real ruler of the roost. At the bottom of the list cringes the daughter-in-law, or oyome...
...them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make. A fresh name has been added to the list of Christianities...
...Grossi Bros. Home Appliances last week of the discounting business-which only a few years ago threatened to knock old-line retailers out of many a choice market. Since the war, the discounters have built a $5 billion business selling appliances and other hard goods 20% to 40% below list price. Now that the first bloom is over, theirs is no longer the no-overhead, no-service happy hunting ground that it used to be. Discounting is a rugged business, growing tougher each month...
...airline business wheel over the rich North Atlantic market, a tiny sparrow in their midst is flitting off with a beakful of their business. Icelandic Airlines has four vintage DC-4 Skymasters whose seven weekly flights between Europe and the U.S. are so jammed that the wait list runs clear into mid-October. Reason: while mounting costs force every other line to plug, for fare increases, Icelandic's rates are some $100 cheaper than those of its competitors, have pushed the lean little line from 400 passengers in 1952 to an expected 30,000 this year, with revenues...