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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast-developing changes in markets and technology in the U.S. have brought some surprising changes in unions. John L. Lewis, who once could stir up a national crisis with a strike threat from his mighty, 600,000-strong Mine Workers union, is now the boss of a union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will...
...truth in the legend (which, of course, an official biographer does not mention) of George's crack about Monty. "Sir," said General Eisenhower, "I have to tell you that I hear Montgomery is after my job." "Relieved to hear it," said George VI. "I thought he wanted mine...
...very first night that she appeared Downstairs this month, one of Tammy's fancier fans followed her cautiously into her dank basement dressing room and asked modestly, "Would you mind reading a script of mine?" The wraith maintained her poise in the face of Noel Coward, managed to say: "I'd like to." A couple of days later, after a ten-minute reading, the cleft-chinned Lorelei of the West Fifties was signed for the lead in Coward's new comedy, Look After Lulu, due to open in late February...
...profit margins, heard that they are 1.06% on the dollar, lowest of any top food chain. Grumbled one stockholder: "Isn't that too low?'' Replied Burger: "The company does not believe in profiteering on food. The food business is not a gold mine, and you cannot mine gold from...
...NAKED TO MINE ENEMIES, by Charles W. Ferguson. Probably the best biography yet written about Cardinal Wolsey, the butcher's son who became England's most powerful statesman. A great churchman and a genius of state administration, he fell victim to his own appetite for power, Henry VIII's displeasure and the Reformation itself. Author Ferguson sees him plain, with charity and good sense...