Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union membership). In only one instance has it recommended a closed shop: the Bethlehem Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
...majority of its panel held then that Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, should concede maintenance of membership so that union leaders would have a stabilized and disciplined organization and thus carry out their difficult part of the contract, a two-year pledge of no strikes...
...decline in plant maintenance; 23% of the manufacturers had. deferred repairs or normal additions, and most of these businessmen expected the delay to affect them seriously within a year or less. Of the manufacturers 37.7% reported themselves importantly engaged in defense work, illustrating the fact that FORTUNE'S panel is heavily populated with executives of large corporations (since only some 9,200 of the 185,000 U.S. manufacturers hold prime defense contracts...
They finally got around to taking a poll of U.S. children. A representative panel of 10,000 kids, between the ages of 8 and 13, was quizzed for opinions on everything from "Your favorite part of dinner?" to "Should the U.S. go to war?" They answered right...
Although the old crate's instrument panel had been stripped clean, the two fliers by devious means got a compass and an altimeter. They rigged up an air speed indicator from the spring of a broken chair. Nazi sentries patrolled a quarter-mile away, but the fliers cycled out night after night to work on the plane. They got automobile gasoline and tried redistilling it themselves...