Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before leaving for Kansas City, Nation Editors Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss worked out editorial plans for this complicated news event, while other members of the Nation staff requisitioned and shipped off everything from typewriters (which Kansas City has run out of) and rubber bands to 15 cartons of files, newspaper clippings, back issues of TIME and a collection of political reference works -indispensable to the research staff. "After packing up all the cartons," Chief Nation Researcher Margaret Boeth recalled, "we realized that we had left out one book-the Bible." So just in case a candidate should prove fond...
...McGovern and take comfort in the cyclical nature of American politics. After a drubbing the G.O.P. tends to rebound, as it did following Barry Goldwater's huge loss in 1964. Observes Teeter: "Every time the Republican Party takes a real shellacking, it bounces back. But it's like a rubber ball. It doesn't bounce as high as it did the time before...
...RUBBER. The breakthrough in the 16-week strike by 60,000 members of the United Rubber Workers came after a 70-hour bargaining marathon, when union negotiators and Firestone agreed to a new pay package giving workers a 36% increase in wages and benefits over three years. The Firestone agreement, which will set the pattern for the other struck members of rubber's Big Four (Goodyear, Goodrich and Uniroyal), will boost the industry's average hourly wage in the first year by 880, to $6.38 an hour. In addition, the rubber workers got an escalator that provides...
Architects of the rubber settlement were Labor Secretary W.J. Usery Jr. and Federal Mediator James Scearce, who had to twist "a few arms on both sides," as an aide put it, to get the crucial pay agreement. The threeyear, 36% increase runs ahead of other recent major labor settlements, which have been in the 30% to 33% range. Washington, however, regards the hefty increase as unavoidable because the rubber workers have lagged behind other industrial employees in pay raises during the past three years. For instance, auto assembly-line workers, who are currently negotiating new contracts of their...
...impact of the rubber strike has been minimal. At first, the union hoped that auto plants would have to shut down for lack of new tires. Instead, tire inventories were so high, mostly because of auto-industry stockpiling during the winter and spring, plus the flow of tires from companies still in operation, that the strike caused almost no repercussions-except for the workers themselves. The union's strike fund was exhausted after only four weeks, and many of the workers were forced to use up savings and go deeply into debt...