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...eleven years ago with its automatic home washer, was all ready last week to do it again. As a starter, it cut prices 7%, the first postwar reductions by a major producer in the automatic-washer field. Then it announced that it had bought Cleveland's H. J. Rand Washing Machine Corp., along with the rights to a "radically different" machine, which it hopes to put on the market next fall. With price cuts and new machine, Bendix hopes to fend off the score of new washers which have tried to break Bendix' tight grip on the market...
...Blake H. Rand, 84, was elected to his 61st term as town clerk...
Bomb Dropped. Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves, boss of the wartime atomic bomb project and now head of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, will become research head of Remington Rand, Inc. when he retires from the Army this month. His new job was broadly described as "including applications of physics, chemistry, electronics, plastics and photography...
Much more newspaper noise was made two days later by the decision in the case of Remington Rand Inc., makers of office equipment. Remington Rand asked regional boards in Buffalo and Detroit for an election among 10,000 of its employees in six plants, to find out whether they still wanted the C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers to bargain for them...
Said NLRB's tough general counsel, Robert N. Denham: if Remington Rand signs a new contract with U.E., it does so at "its own peril." NLRB will not help to enforce it. Stormed U.E.'s Fitzgerald: "This is a call to arms to all employers to break contracts...