Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naturalist Leonard Dubkin, who once wrote a nature column for the Chicago Tribune, is probably the only man who ever lost his heart to an albino bat. This esoteric affair, which took place in Chicago, is described in Dubkin's new book, The White Lady (Putnam...
LOOK DOWN IN MERCY (308 pp.)-Walter Baxter-Putnam...
...GOSHAWK (215 pp.)-T. H. White -Putnam...
...decision brought only a postponement of the deadlock over steel, not a solution. The Steelworkers' demands for increased wages and benefits (variously estimated at from 30? to 50? an hour) will go next week before the Wage Stabilization Board. There it will be up to Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam to find the final answer to a three-horned poser: 1) Phil Murray's determination to get more of an increase than present wage stabilization policies allow; 2) Big Steel's determination to yield nothing to labor without a steel price increase; and 3) the obvious fact that...
...Putnam's ukases did not make a strike inevitable, despite Murray's threat. The union's wage demands, made public this week, would boost average earnings by 19? to 20? an hour; if these are trimmed to accord with the WSB formula, the stabilizers might give the nod to Murray's demands for fringe benefits (longer vacations, higher shift premiums) without undignified retreat. Murray is also asking that the steel companies guarantee to each employee with three years' service annual earnings equal to 32 hours a week for 52 weeks...