Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clean comics" seal and other pressures, the clean-comics group hopes to force the holdouts to abide by the code. The association's president, Phil Keenan (of Hillman Periodicals, publisher of Crime Detective, Real Clue, Western Fighters), warned the public not to expect overnight miracles. Because of the early deadlines, said he, improvements "may not be evident for months...
...living "escalator" contracts, on the grounds that they tie the worker to a fixed standard of living. But no C.I.O. officer complained about the G.M. contract. Big labor, at last, seemed to. be interested in stability. The only C.I.O. leader who could be unhappy about it was Boss Phil Murray. His steelworkers, tied to a contract which forbade a strike, had got nothing (TIME, May 3, 17). But there was some wistful talk that the steelmakers might pick up the Detroit cue. The prospects for a peaceful labor summer in big industry looked almost rosy...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., radio's quiz-witted Phil Baker got a $200 fine, a go-day sentence (suspended) and court orders to mount the water wagon for a year, after he was nabbed at the wheel of a weaving...
...Breaks. The one thing about the A's that everybody admits is good is its young, hard-throwing pitching staff. The star is trigger-tempered Phil Marchildon, a muscleman from a Canadian lead mine, who throws a fast ball that shimmies and shakes. The box-office draw is big (6 ft. 42 in.) Lou Brissie, war hero with a game leg (TIME, May 3). Connie's other starters: baby-faced Carl Scheib, 21, solemn Joe Coleman, 25, and two others temporarily on the bench...
...usual, however, eyes were on steel, always the pacemaker in industrial settlements. Despite the handicap of a two-year contract, a cut in steel prices, and a no-strike clause, the steelworkers' Phil Murray was still bargaining for all he was worth. Last week he announced that negotiations had taken a new tack. A program of insurance, hospitalization and retirement benefits was under discussion. It would cost the steel companies the equivalent of a 9.6?-an-hour pay increase...