Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...march back to work would not mean peace at AC. The local was determined to recapture its lost members, win a new bargaining election. Said Buse: "Our fight must now be carried on inside the plant...
...oldest major strike in the U.S. ended this week. It ended in a stinging defeat for the union. After 328 days of mental and physical violence, the tattered remnant of U.A.W. Local 248 returned to work at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant near Milwaukee, without having won any of its demands. Cried the local's president, Robert Buse: "The company expected us to hold out until hell froze over. This is a surprise move-a tactic they did not expect...
...minor league switch-hitter, the Chemistry Department maintains an anomalous position that is unique throughout the college. Forced to meet the needs of both the concentrator preparing for graduate work and the liberal arts man filling a distribution requirement, the department must cater to both these interests in a plant already operating at full capacity. The result is satisfactory to neither faction...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came prime good news for West Coast industrialists. Beginning April i, a 31% reduction in freight rates will go into effect on steel shipped from U.S. Steel's Geneva (Utah) plant. This would reduce steel prices about $4.40 a ton for West Coast customers (TIME, March 10). Cried the jubilant Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce: "The decision . . . establishes the new Western steel price economy for which we have fought so long and hard...
...economy might have come a month earlier except for the anguished cries of Henry J. Kaiser (TIME, March 10) for a freight cut for his Fontana steel plant. This had held up the Geneva reduction. As ICC said that it would continue to study Western freight rates, Westerners guessed that Henry Kaiser might soon get his reduction...