Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chadwick to Watkins, who made a long-distance call to Chester. The Senator got nothing more than a reluctant maybe. But last week Chadwick, a quiet, vigorous yo-year-old, went to Washington to talk to Watkins, and the two men liked each other. Chadwick, an enemy of the local G.O.P. machine, served only one term in Congress before being plowed under at the polls. His legal colleagues consider him a formidable opponent who hangs on like a bulldog in crossexamination. He has none of Ray Jenkins' color, flamboyance or diffusiveness. He is scarcely as humorous as Joseph...
...freedom and world slavery. Soon the Kremlin will be militarily ready to launch a large-scale surprise assault on the United States. Our current strength in air power and nuclear weapons, thus far the major deterrent to all-out war, has not been exploited in our reaction to continued local aggression...
Through the gates of the high-school football field in South Bend, Ind. one sunny day last week streamed 8,500 Studebaker Corp. employees, all members of C.I.O. United Auto Workers Local 5. They had come to decide on a matter of life and death for Studebaker and a matter of considerable importance to themselves. The company had lost $8,925,800 in the first half of this year, was still suffering heavy losses. To turn the tide, Studebaker asked the union to take a 14% cut in wage rates...
...final vote was a triumph for Studebaker Chairman Paul Hoffman and President Harold Vance, and a vindication for Louis Horvath, president of Local 5. By a margin of better than eight to one, the workers agreed to take the pay cuts...
...something more would have to be done. Horvath & Co. were convinced, and in 26 meetings and 150 negotiating hours, hammered out a new contract calling for a wage cut. Said Horvath: "This was the hardest thing that we labor leaders ever had to do." But when a meeting of local members was called a fortnight ago, unexpected opposition to the plan popped up. Horvath was greeted by jeers and catcalls, and the new contract was turned down in a show-of-hands vote (TIME, Aug. 16). The decision stunned Studebaker and South Bend...