Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Question of Precedent. Although it was obviously true that pensions would cost the steelmen money, the fact finders had agreed among themselves that steel's profits were large enough to absorb the full cost of the pension and welfare plans. Nevertheless, Steelman Fairless was on firm ground when he insisted that this was a matter to be thrashed out at the bargaining table. That was a part of the original agreement...
...full cost of pension plans for more than 20 years. Fairless' U.S. Steel itself had been an important party to the royalty-pension contract which operators of soft-coal mines had signed with John Lewis (see below). A steel spokesman said: "The Government forced that down our throats." Nevertheless, there it was in Big Steel's throat...
Cripps said that the sacrifices involved in devaluation would be wasted if production costs were allowed to rise. By this he meant that appeals for wage increases must be rejected. The alternative would be "unemployment . . . bankruptcy . . . fear and misery." Nevertheless, wage-freezing in the face of rising living costs was the bitterest part of his message for home consumption...
...Nevertheless, the threat was enough to cause U.S. planemakers to sound an alarm. They had no commercial jet planes under construction, or even on order, although their drawing boards were full of sketches. U.S. airlines could not afford the immense cost of a new transport estimated as high as $50 million. Both planemakers and airlines looked to Washington for help, but Washington had not made up its mind what to do. Last year, when the planemakers first woke up to Britain's challenge, they had tried to get Congress to pass a "prototype" bill under which the Federal Government...
...Nevertheless, the board told steelmakers and the steel unions to get back to company-by-company bargaining. They would have to make a start in that direction, in fact, when they negotiated pension and insurance terms...