Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel strike was still set for April 8, unless the steelworkers' Phil Murray and industry negotiators manage to reach an agreement. During the week, both Charlie Wilson and Harry Truman helped to upset the labor-management negotiations just when-they began to show promise. Wilson, returning from Key West, infuriated Phil Murray by blurting that the proposed WSB package was "a serious threat in our year-old effort to stabilize the economy." Then Wilson telephoned the steelmakers to promise them that the President had agreed to a raise in steel prices if the wage settlement required...
...letter to Wilson's blast, wrote: "I find that the proposed changes in wages and working conditions are by no means unreasonable . . . [while steel] profits are continuing at extraordinarily high levels." This was a clear change of signals and an invitation for labor to yield nothing. If negotiators reach an agreement this week, it will be a tribute to their own clearheadedness in the face of confused and contradictory Government policies...
Almost daily, new evidence of Red China's convulsions reach the British Crown territory. With their violent "five-antis" campaign against private business, the Chinese Reds have brought merchandising and much of industry close to a standstill. There is not enough cotton to go around. Shanghai, one of the world's largest ports, now scarcely ever sees an ocean-going ship; its wharves are empty, its dockyards without work now that trade with the West has been shut off. China's main source of revenue long has been taxation of foreign trade; now there is none...
...Elementary Precautions. Atomic medicine is far from the stage where a general practitioner down the block can look at a patient, reach into a lead-lined safe, pull out a shielded syringe and inject a radioactive isotope. Probably that stage will never be reached; even medically safe doses can be highly dangerous if carelessly handled. Wisely, the AEC has laid down strict rules to cover the distribution and use of its products. Before anyone may use an artificial radioisotope,*he must tell the AEC what he wants to use it for, how he intends to use it, what he hopes...
...Atlantic City last week, 18 countries from all over the world showed their latest women's fashions at the Second International Fashion Review. Biggest news at the show was the first postwar collection of German clothes to reach the U.S. They were the product of Germany's leading designer, Hans Gehringer...