Word: miners
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...productivity does. Steelworkers figure that they have been boosting productivity by somewhat more than 3% a year, while the steelmakers contend that the rise is 2% or less. Last week management's argument was publicly voiced by U.S. Steel Corp. President Leslie B. Worthington, 59, a coal miner's son who rose through sales to become second in command (to Chairman Roger Blough) of the world's biggest steelmaker. Said the usually soft-spoken Worthington...
...Bobo Rockefeller (born Jievute Paulekiute), 45, was finally wearing his engagement ring. Though candid about her third husband-to-be ("I'll tell you what he's like: he's a man, and that's a rare thing to find these days"), the coal miner's daughter, whose 1954 divorce from Winthrop Rockefeller brought her a $6,400,000 settlement, was coy about her wedding date. "I hope," she cooed, "we don't take as long to get married as we did to decide...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from...
...else do front pages support so rich a top dressing of hyperbole. Rare is the U.S. paper that Forgoes the opportunity to nail a brag to its masthead. The Denver Post celebrates the CLIMATE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The Atlanta Journal COVERS DIXIE LIKE THE DEW. The Fairbanks News-Miner is AMERICA'S FARTHEST NORTH DAILY PAPER; the Miami News, THE BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER...
Unimpressed by the implication that bigness must necessarily be bad, Federal Judge Julius H. Miner denied the injunction, contending that there was "no legal basis for the suit in the first place." For the Justice Department, Miner's decision was a bitter blow, coming as it did two weeks after a Dallas judge had similarly refused the department's attempt to bar the merger of aircraft-making Chance Vought Corp. into Ling-Tem-co Electronics Inc. But at week's end, as the two Chicago banks became one, a Justice Department spokesman coldly warned: "We still plan...