Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demands: 1) permit the National War Labor Board to approve a 20% hike in take-home pay for a 40-hour week; 2) abolish the system allocating wage control to the War Labor Board, supervision of working conditions to the Government conciliation service; 3) establish industrywide, instead of individual plant, bargaining; 4) order Government-sponsored negotiations in strikes already under way. Added Barrett meaningly: "If these proposals do not receive consideration, strikes are inevitable. There is danger of strikes in steel, automobile, electrical, hard-rock mining, chemical and packinghouse industries...
...hoped there would be no more ceiling changes "until actual operating experience at normal volume [the 1941 rate] is available." That looked months away, as material shortages this week shut down one plant after another. Profits seemed even more distant. Despite the price increases, auto makers have been losing, on the average, around...
After pondering the bids submitted for the $190,000,000 Geneva Steel plant, the War Assets Administration last week decided to sell it to U.S. Steel Corp. Big Steel, which operated Geneva during the war, had offered to pay $47,500,000, spend another $18,600,000 to convert the plant to manufacture types of steel needed by steel-hungry West Coast industries (TIME, May 13). It has also promised to spend $25,000,000 for a new California fabricating plant...
Fontana's production record is excellent on quantity, bad on cost. Example: In 1944 pig iron cost Fontana $24.50 a ton v. $17.42 for the government-owned Geneva plant. Since then Kaiser has lowered his costs. With Eagle Mountain, Kaiser expects to quote steel-hungry Pacific Coast industries new low steel prices, but steelmen will wait & see. The mine won't be in full production for at least six months, and even then ore will have to be trucked 50 miles to the Southern Pacific tracks at Indio...
...loans. But they got the Government interested. In record time, U.S. Homes got: 1) $175,000 in loans from RFC; 2) machinery and equipment from the War Assets Administration; 3) a lease on 80,000 square feet of space in the surplus 58-acre B-29 plant at Marietta. Eighty-one more veterans were taken in on the original terms, thus bringing the company's total capital close...