Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner had John Lewis lumbered back to the showers than the C.I.O. danced into the ring. Last week it began its impatient fight for a second round of wage boosts. It was armed with a 71-page "report" for which it had paid Robert R. Nathan Associates, Inc. $12,000. Nathan's simple conclusion, which neatly fitted the C.I.O. strategy, was that management could indeed pay higher wages-and without raising prices...
...effect, the "report" asked all U.S. workers: What are you waiting for? In a way, they were waiting for something just like the Nathan report to spark their long-planned wage drive with "facts...
Wages v. Profits. But facts, like the Bible, can be used to justify almost anything. Industry economists immediately claimed that the Nathan report was full of gimmicks. One of them: he used as a standard for wages a peak period (January 1945) when labor was mining a war bonanza. On the other hand, he took as a standard for corporation profits the comparatively depressed period...
...relay isn't what's wrong, although that's what the figures seem to say," remarked Gordon. Just where the tragic flaw fell thrice, however, he refused to state, considering such information of tactical importance. Other channels, nevertheless, report of a very weak breast-stroking staff...
...first full-dress reply of business to the report of economist Robert Nathan (which C.I.O. President Philip Murray said would be used as a guidepost in C.I.O. wage demands in steel, automobile and electrical manufacturing industries) was made by William K. Jackson, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...