Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest strike in the history of U.S. hospitals bedeviled New York City last week. At six voluntary, nonprofit hospitals (four in Manhattan, one each in. The Bronx and Brooklyn), nurses' aides, orderlies, porters, kitchen and laundry help hit the bricks on orders of Local 1199, Retail Drug Employees Union, A.F.L.-C.I.O. This week, with no settlement in sight, the union was threatening to strike several more hospitals...
...nonprofessional workers had heeded the call. Claimed the union: 3,200 out of 4,300 were out. But there was no question as to the issues: the union wanted recognition to bargain collectively for the workers, 27,000 of whom in New York City's 82 voluntary, nonprofit hospitals are woefully underpaid.* Local 1199 charged that the bulk of them make less than $40 (some as little as $32) for a work week of 40 hours or more, with no overtime or fringe benefits. Many also get relief payments to eke out a living. In hospitals operated...
...Mitzi live in a 14-room Park Avenue duplex artfully done in French Provençal, play an occasional game of bridge, manage to take in nearly every Broadway opening. At his death, Newhouse's empire (which he estimates at $150 million-$200 million) will go into a nonprofit educational trust; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 31, and Don, 29. But Mr. S.I. Sr., at 63, is looking ahead only to his next purchase, even now is talking with the money-losing Rome Daily American (circ...
...bright schoolchildren eagerly took on extra, out-of-class work, the parents (now incorporated as the nonprofit Lakewood Foundation) have expanded the program. Last week the foundation was conducting five French and three science once-a-week classes for ages six to twelve (sample project: observing the effect of radiation on hamsters), plus two Russian courses for adults and children, and a junior "Great Books," program that probes such works as Little Women and 20,000 Leagues under...
Fresh Approach. For Railway Express, a nonprofit corporation which deducts its operating costs from its revenues, passes the remainder on to 68 owner railroads, the Central's decision, effective in a year, was a critical blow, since it owns 14% of the agency's stock. Second largest stockholder (12.6%) is the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is also considering pulling out. If the Pennsy decides to do so, Western railroad officials concede that they will not be able to support the agency alone, will have to abandon...