Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will continue as chief executive officer, joined United in 1926 with an engineering degree from Yale, became Pratt & Whitney general manager in 1940. Horner directed the huge World War II expansion that made the company the biggest U.S. maker of piston engines for aircraft. Before becoming president of the parent company in 1943, Horner was vice president in charge of manufacturing for all United divisions...
...mathematical figments. Consequently, the office pays virtually no attention to the student's estimate, assuming that he can live on an arbitrarily determined budget and that through work or loans he can earn $650 towards this budget. The office is interested in the more meticulous, if no more scrupulous, parent, whose financial condition varies from year to year...
...heightened the sense of impending crisis. The A.F.L.-C.I.O., which set out to combat racial discrimination as one of the prime aims of the unified labor movement, has offended many Southern unionists and unorganized workers by supporting integration. In Alabama and Tennessee angered locals are threatening to secede from parent unions, demand lily-white, "Anglo-Saxon" unions...
...unions would purge themselves. But in many cases the power of racketeers is so great that such a move could never begin, even if it ever did, the move would hopelessly split the unions wide open. Just recently, the AFL-CIO Longshoreman's Union called upon the parent organization to deliver an "ultimatum" to the teamster's union, run by James Hoffa, "to clean up their organization." There is too great a chance, however, that Hoffa might simply laugh and with his union, which is the nation's largest and most strategic, leave the ranks...
...Congressional investigation, on the other hand, need not precipitate such splits if it cooperates with AFL-CIO and does not prefer exposes to cautious but powerful press releases. In such a manner, criminal elements in unions would be faced with reprisals from the parent organization and with legal action from the government. But cooperation between government and labor must be accompanied by a determined stand on the part of businessmen to deal honestly with honest unions. "Stand up to the hoodlums!" advised New York Attorney General Jacob Javits. If business would refuse to pay kick-backs and more important, report...