Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to scrap long-term contracts altogether. More and more companies now aim at the compromise middle ground of a two-year contract. What U.S. industry also needs is a contract that will give it some of the same protection that U.S. labor gets. Just as labor's wages are often pegged to the cost-of-living escalator, so might they be tied to earnings, with the automatic wage boosts being granted in fat years and withheld in times of temporary recession. In a dynamic economy, the escalators should run in both directions...
...large chunks of the countryside but in the Moslem quarters of Beirut and Tripoli, where their leaders tapped their telephone wires into neighbors' lines and regularly negotiated cease-fires with government forces by telephone. In Tripoli, most Moslem of Lebanese cities, after the week's roughest scrap (eight dead), the rebels as usual phoned a hospital in the government area to ask for an ambulance to fetch the wounded...
...Welland Canal, a ship would be charged 6? for each gross registered ton, plus 42? for each short ton (2,000 Ibs.) of bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...when Billy Hand the Hatter put up $3 a week for him to deliver hats. "Any young man who would do what you have done today." said Billy, ''deserves a job." On the Way. When his father started up a junkyard, young Bernie lugged scrap metal, stowed away nickels from his own pay for his account in the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank until, at 19, he had $1,200 to start his own business...
...defended liberal causes ranging from James Joyce's Ulysses to the Sauerkraut Workers Union, this week finished a chore with a somewhat different aroma. After ten months on the payroll of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ernst declared in a 95-page report that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez was kidnaped...