Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt must revise his whole cost-of-living strategy. For last week A.F. of L.'s William Green and C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, who have held labor in line with the Little Steel formula, marched to the White House to threaten mutiny unless prices went down. This was a very interesting piece of byplay, for everyone guessed that while the two labor leaders talked tough on the front steps, to impress their members, they were probably much less belligerent inside, imploring the President to hold prices level, rather than threatening him if he did not roll prices...
Boeing's worst feature was its disjointed Plant No. 2, far enough up Seattle's Duwamish River so that fuselages from the No. 1 plant had to be put on barges to reach final assembly. First, Phil Johnson tackled Boeing's sales problem-to get the money to fix its production mess. He haunted the Allied Purchasing Commission's Washington office, wangled enough orders and cash in advance from the French to revamp Plant No. 2. As the war crescendoed, the U.S. Army poured funds in; the white-elephant plant became a huge, fully integrated...
Last week Boeing made good news and bad news: 1) production of B-17s is "far behind schedule" because Boeing cannot get some 9,000 crucially needed workers; 2) after two years' dickering, Phil Johnson bought, for $7,700,000, every last brick and bolt of Plant...
Galled and saddened, C.I.O. President Phil Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green manfully renewed their no-strike pledge. John Lewis was mum. Now that the four-month coal battle was temporarily over, he and the nation could tot up the results...
...Slacks, No Cuties. Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees. Other things that Patron Wrigley objected to were the unladylike costumes affected by the players and the undignified names their sponsors tagged on them - such as Slapsie. Maxie's Curvaceous Cuties, the Num Num Pretzel Girls, Barney Ross's Adorables and the Dr. Pepper Girls of Miami Beach...