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...visit to the Lowell House basement yesterday, two representatives from Maytag Inc. agreed to install seven new coin operated washing machines and four double-decker dryers in the house at no cost to the University...
...Maytag Inc. may also be willing to supply other houses with new equipment, Glynne added. "It's a question of whether the houses want it or not," he said...
Meanwhile, there was a new chance for a settlement in National's long strike. The airline's 1,200 hostesses shut down the airline on Sept. 6 after President L.B. ("Bud") Maytag rejected their wage and work-rules demands. National and the Air Line Pilots Association, which negotiates on the national level for the flight attendants, reached an agreement in October calling for a $114 rise in the monthly minimum salary, to $750-an 18% increase...
...many people, in fact, have refused to take their socks off since Boston clinched the pennant that Maytag is currently considering a reduction in the production of its washing machines...
Some manufacturers, notably Polaroid and Maytag, refuse to play the private-label game. But for many others, the temptation of greater sales is irresistible. Notes Rodger Gibson, a G.E. brand manager, speaking of the company's private-label operations: "It helps keep the factory busy, and the more units we make, the lower the cost." There is also a growing band of little-known producers who specialize in private labels. One of the biggest, San Francisco's California Canners and Growers, generates annual sales of $102 million by turning out canned goods and other foods mostly for major...