Word: reubens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board's three industrial members (Reuben Robertson Jr., president of Champion Paper & Fibre Co.; J. Ward Keener, vice president of B. F. Goodrich; Henry Arthur, manager of commercial research at Swift & Co.) were for permitting an 8% rise over wages in effect on Jan. 15, 1950. Such fringe benefits as pensions and production raises would be included in the 8%. A firm cutoff in wage boosts had to be made somewhere, or the whole anti-inflation program would come unhinged. Ching and the other two public members (Clark Kerr and John Dunlop, both economics professors and veterans of Government...
With such thumbnail plot summaries, a 56-year-old disc jockey named Reuben Bradford is selling opera to Texans. On Dallas' station WFAA, his Opera Once Over Lightly is beamed directly at "the taxi-driver who likes Figaro, but doesn't know...