Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then with McDonald and three other United Steelworkers officials for about 20 minutes. At the closed-door meetings, said Press Secretary James Hagerty, Ike "did most of the talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling for an 80-day back-to work period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...
Stenographer Mason and five others promptly formed a syndicate, notified Winnipeg Stamp Dealer Kasimir Bileski of their find. Astounded at the error, the first to reach the public in Canada's century of stamp printing, Bileski offered the syndicate $1,000 a stamp...
...talk about rising costs lacks a certain validity, however. The officials of the Dining Halls have thus far failed in their effort to state why board rates might reach $630. At the meeting of the Administration with undergraduates on Monday, the director of the Dining Halls refused to divulge the average wage of workers. It is, though, the highest in the Ivy League--this has not yet been mentioned...
Chevy's Ed Cole predicts that the 1960 compact cars will ring up 1,100,000 sales, lead the industry to within a bumper's reach of a 7,000,000-car year, the second biggest (first: 1955) in U.S. history. "A market of this size," says Cole, "should see sales of 300,000 Corvairs, 250,000 Falcons, 150,000 Valiants, 400,000 Studebaker Larks and American Ramblers, not counting bigger Rambler Ambassadors...
...Eisenhower said he was "getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse." Free collective bargaining, added Ike, "the logical recourse of a free people in settling industrial disputes, has apparently broken down." The President strongly suggested that the Administration would now step in if labor and management failed to reach agreement...