Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor, barred from strategic positions in a major production drive, was determined to reach for power before it was too late. Labor's bosses-A.F.L., C.I.O. and railway unions, gathered under a jerry-built roof called the United Labor Policy Committee-had picked the wage board as the arena for the showdown fight...
...chairman of WSB, Ching had announced the wage freeze, hastening to add that it was only temporary; some formula for thawing it out would soon be devised. His tripartite board had set to work. They were still working last week when Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston ordered them to reach a decision by week...
...strike in 160 textile mills. 70,000 woolen workers walked off their jobs. The autoworkers considered that a wage formula which did not allow a cost-of-living clause in their contracts left them free to walk out. The WSB fight would make it harder than ever to reach an agreement on the still-unsettled railroad wage fight...
...under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...Electric Co., he was ringmaster of one of the biggest industrial shows on earth: a colossal sprawl of 115 factories which annually produced 200,000 different items (from miniature .06-gram light globes to 100-ton generator shafts) worth more than $1 billion, a talented industrial giant which could reach out and run the Hanford atomic works for the Government as well. During World War II, as the strong man of the WPB, he broke aircraft production bottlenecks and cleared the way for the 1944 record of 96,369 military planes. When he returned to G.E. after...