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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seldom crusades: "I don't think I'm God-I'm not running the world." But Mullin often strops a sharp edge on a drawing. One neatly sliced target: spitting Slugger Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. Another: Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley, pictured as a Mullinesque carpetbagger while he prepared to move his team to Los Angeles (TIME, April 28) in search of the dollar. Says O'Malley, undaunted: "I am very high on Mr. Mullin...
Republican Mullin has often thought of switching to political cartoons, occasionally draws them for the WT. But with an annual .income ranging from $35,000 to $50,000 he prefers the profession he dominates. "I'm very lucky," says Mullin. "I'm doing exactly what I want...
...Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're Wonderful, You, and colored balloons floated above the linen-covered tables. Then up stepped Curtice, the very model of a modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars (v. an estimated 4,300,000 in '58), which in turn will "start a chain reaction throughout the whole economy. I should expect a further increase in the gross national product in the fourth quarter...
...other side of the coin is that long-term contracts often cost more than they are worth. Insiders say that General Electric thinks it paid too dearly for the five-year contract that it happily signed with the International Union of Electrical Workers in 1955's boom year, now wants no more long-term pacts. Union Carbide also signed its first long-term contracts in 1955-for three years-and once was enough. Labor costs have jumped most in precisely the areas where profits declined most. Last April, Union Carbide's contracts compelled it to hike wages...
...scrap long-term contracts altogether. More and more companies now aim at the compromise middle ground of a two-year contract. What U.S. industry also needs is a contract that will give it some of the same protection that U.S. labor gets. Just as labor's wages are often pegged to the cost-of-living escalator, so might they be tied to earnings, with the automatic wage boosts being granted in fat years and withheld in times of temporary recession. In a dynamic economy, the escalators should run in both directions...