Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Majali was Hussein's Premier for four days in 1955. He tried to lead Jordan into the ill-fated Baghdad Pact with the West, was forced from office in the rioting that followed. This time he promised: no foreign military pacts...
...battle started with a statement by R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for the steel industry, that the industry is considering a mutual-aid pact or even an industrywide shutdown should the union decide to strike one or two firms instead of striking the whole industry at once as in the past. Such a pact would be similar to the profit-sharing pact signed by struck airlines last fall (TIME, Nov. 10), except that the airlines later got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which can exempt airlines from antitrust procedures...
...usual gave no dollar figures. But Dave McDonald, who this week opens negotiations with steelmakers for contracts to replace those expiring June 30, predicted that his 1,250,000-member U.S.A. will take home "an even greater agreement" than it won in 1956 after a five-week strike. That pact, says the industry, boosted steel wages and benefits by some 75? an hour to the current average...
...Steel Pact Proposed...
...YORK, N.Y., May 6--The steel industry disclosed today that it is considering a mutual aid pact to share profits if only a few steel firms are closed down by a July 1 strike...