Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying hours for crews of both jet and piston-driven planes. American offered substantial wage increases, e.g., from $19,200 annually to $28,000 for eight-year pilots, but demanded that pilots continue to fly 85 hours a month, the maximum allowed by the old contract. ALPA asked a scale up to $27,500 for the same senior pilots, but wanted monthly flying time cut to 75 hours. Unable to resolve the differences, union and management broke off negotiations, and ALPA grounded pilots as each post-midnight flight ended. No pickets appeared. Said one pilot: "Why should we walk...
John Foster Dulles met for 90 minutes with Charles de Gaulle. The premier did most of the talking. Demanding a greater voice for France, De Gaulle declared that the West is "at war" with the "Russo-Sino bloc" on a global scale, and that the Big Three must have "organic consultation." De Gaulle asked why the U.S. had failed to support France in the U.N. vote on Algeria, which the French (and the French alone) consider a "flank of NATO." Dulles in general welcomed the idea of increased French participation in Western councils. But Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani...
...Nobody should be surprised if in the President's coming budget message there are a number of [new] proposals made to scale down or eliminate Government services...
...scoffed at Pollock in the past, now praised "the great pounding rhythms which batter their way across the 18-ft. canvases, never for a moment out of control." Pollock was much more than "Drool School," conceded the Manchester Guardian. "Rich and splendid design of this quality and on this scale is infinitely rare." The Observer allowed that "the crude impression of a dotty exhibitionist spilling paint aimlessly over a canvas laid flat can be instantly scouted. Never, one surmises, was a pioneer more conscious of the effect he would eventually produce...
...railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from 26,300 to 18,500-but was a shrewd enough labor negotiator to avoid a full-scale strike...