Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best discussed in the privacy of an Executive Suite at the Barclay." Last week the statement was open to doubt. In Philadelphia a Federal Grand Jury returned a second set of indictments against eight electrical-equipment makers, charging antitrust violations involving criminal conspiracy to fix prices, divide markets and rig bids (TIME, Feb. 29). One of the hotels where the executives from the firms involved met to fix their prices: the Barclay...
Last week, fresh from a flop series of speeches in Wisconsin, where he tried to lop away at the neck of one of his bitterest foes. Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa. as outwardly confident as the driver of a 14-wheel rig, swaggered into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity: 18,000) for a rally billed as dramatic evidence of Teamster solidarity. Again he whaled away at Kennedy ("the handsome young man who never knew what it was to work with his hands"), as well as at Arkansas' Teamster-investigating Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Landrum...
...government charged that, to set prices and rig bids, representatives of the five major manufacturers met at least 35 times over the past year, took hotel rooms under assumed names. The government market broke up among G.E. (39%), Westinghouse (35%), I-T-E Circuit Breaker (11%), Allis-Chalmers (8%) and Federal Pacific...
Distance, on the other hand, was a major obstacle in setting up the rig. It went 570 miles by truck, 778 miles by MacKenzie River barge on its way to the well site, in northwest Canada 45 miles north of the Arctic Circle...
...Eskimos at Grandview Hills No. 1 are the first who ever worked on an oil rig. They were hired because of the difficulty of recruiting white workers, mostly married, for long term work so far north. Three were taken on last summer and flown south for training on Alberta rigs. One went back to muskrat trapping, but the other two form the nucleus of the six-man Eskimo contingent on the well...