Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planes even bigger than the C-5 seem certain to come. The Air Force and U.S. manufacturers are studying the possibility of constructing an aircraft capable of carrying a 1,000,000-lb. pay-load-nearly four times that of the C5. About the only factor limiting the size of future planes is the ability of existing airport facilities to handle them. In view of Lockheed's success in producing its huge bird, none of the foreseeable obstacles to even bigger planes seem insurmountable...
Persistent Deadlock. The striking members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers left their jobs June 21, demanding an 18% pay increase spread over two years. Backed by a federal conciliation board, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority offered a 12% raise, to an average $3.48 (Canadian) an hour. At the first negotiations since the walk-out began, the union cut its demand to 15%, but the deadlock persisted. Ottawa fears that a big settlement could set off inflationary wage increases, as happened after the seaway workers won a two-year, 30% pay boost...
...well, in fact, that it pushed British per-capita annual consumption of baked beans to 11.5 Ibs. -twice the U.S. input. Foreign sales increased steadily, until earnings from abroad represented as much as 85% of the company's total. While Heinz prospered abroad, it no longer seemed to pay much attention to a U.S. food market that was more stable, more varied and more lucrative. Gookin changed all that...
...invasion. At least a dozen U.S. securities firms have begun operating inside Germany in recent years, attracting increasing numbers of German investors to U.S. corporations. German banks, for whom securities' underwriting and trading is an important source of profit, found themselves at a disadvantage because they had to pay commissions to U.S. brokers when buying American stocks for clients...
...legal roadblock against encroaching progress. With rare exceptions, they have lost out to the principle of "eminent domain," which allows the state to acquire private property in the interests of the public good. But Dennison claimed that in addition to compensation for the land itself, the state should pay him for loss of privacy and deterioration of his scenic view. He also tried a more unusual tack. He demanded added damages for the nuisance caused by the traffic noises at his doorstep. Impressed by his arguments, a lower court awarded him $37,000. The state appealed. Dennison, it said, deserved...