Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months. Its auto sales for the current model-year have been running about 10% ahead of last year's levels. Encouraging as those signs may be, however, A.M.C. knows that its recovery prospects could be scuttled by either an auto-production strike or a costly labor settlement...
However, both protest leaders and the student body as a whole regarded the settlement, in Brown's words: "(As a) victory for black students not only at Howard but at every black college...
After 20 minutes with Kennedy, McCarthy emerged with another sardonic quip. "Now," he said, "at least three people in Washington are reconsidering their candidacy." Later, he urged Kennedy to "leave the primaries to me," hinted that at the convention "some kind of settlement" might be arranged. He also announced plans to enter two more primaries-in Indiana and South Dakota-in addition to those in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon and California...
...agreed on a new three-year contract that would have provided a package of 710 an hour spread among wages, insurance, pensions and other benefits. Thus the strike was as much against Glass Blowers President Lee W. Minton, 56, as it was against the companies. Calling the proposed settlement "the best offer we've ever had in this industry," Minton urged his union to accept it. But by a decisive 63-to-30 vote, local presidents rejected the offer and rebuffed their leader. "I don't know why they turned it down," said Minton. "The reasons vary from...
...affect the taste of the liquor. And since blood and blood plasma, as well as many kinds of drugs, have to be shipped in glass, hospitals are threatened with a serious shortage of necessary supplies. Minton, who is now belatedly backing his striking union members, predicted that a strike settlement was going to take a long time. Said he: "Now maybe people will realize how important the glass industry...