Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night when he heard a fellow boarder at a Los Angeles rooming house playing jazz piano. "He seemed to be having so much fun I just flipped," recalls Mason. Thus ended his ambition to become an insurance actuary; he went to Oklahoma City College as a music major...
...mechanics employed by American and Pan Am belong to the Transport Workers Union. At the other major carriers, they are members of the International Association of Machinists. Now that the T.W.U. has won the 25.5% package with American, the I.A.M. is unlikely to accept less from the other carriers. Another complicating factor for the airlines is that I.A.M. President Roy Siemiller, who ran the 1966 strike, will retire this June at 68. Siemiller, craggy, bespectacled and steel-hard, doubtless hopes to exit triumphantly with an exceptional agreement...
Negotiations are deadlocked at six of the nation's nine major airlines. Eastern and four other companies have asked the National Mediation Board to move in, but so far it has agreed to do so only at National Airlines, where I.A.M. members have called a wildcat strike. The mechanics gained some attention for their dispute last week by disrupting the National-sponsored invitational golf tournament in Miami. A union-hired plane trailing a banner that proclaimed "Don't Fly N.A.L." circled the course. Several strikers invaded the 17th green, traded blows with police and had to be bodily...
...have gone public since 1962. Their stocks have turned in mixed performances, and few have kept pace with agency growth. Some analysts sense a general waning of public interest in stocks of service companies, particularly those of ad agencies. Investors tend to regard the business as unstable and its major asset-alent-as difficult to evaluate...
...first Marshall Field, who made much of his $100 million fortune† in land speculation during the late 19th century, once remarked: "Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way and the safest way but the only way to become wealthy." For decades, major U.S. industrial and financial corporations ignored the Field formula, leaving the business of real estate largely to its own local operatives. Now the trend is running the other way. So many huge companies have been expanding into real estate and building that the nation's largest industry, construction, is undergoing...