Word: sided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...share them with the country. Many an anxious reporter and confused citizen hoped to find in the Mitchell report a solution to the five-week-old steel strike. But the report produced more of a sputter than a bang. It bent so far backward to be impartial that each side in the steel dispute immediately claimed vindication for its own cause...
Under Mitchell's urging, President Eisenhower released the report to quiet a rising congressional chorus for action by the Administration. Ike hoped that by publishing some indisputable facts on the impasse and admonishing both sides to bargain harder, the Administration could build up public pressure for a quick peace without breaking his promise not to interfere directly. To offend nobody, Mitchell called in both combatants beforehand, showed what he intended to release, made some minor changes suggested by each. Neither side quibbled with the final report, but neither was moved. Said Mitchell: "Management and labor already know these facts...
...less on their invested capital (12.8%) than the nation's 25 biggest industrial firms (14.7%) in booming 1955-57, which tended to take some of the steam out of the union's talk about huge steel profits in 1959's exceptional first half. On the other side, the report answered industry's contention that a wage raise would necessitate a price rise. It showed that since 1951 the industry's wage-and-benefit costs per ton of steel have gone up from $32 to $44, while its price per ton has gone from...
Skeletons That Walk. At times he is in purgatory, at times in hell, everywhere creating fantastic visions compounded of memories of life, and odds and ends of curious reading. At one point, he is in an elaborate casino which illustrates the sordid side of man's instinct for gain; again, he and his fellow travelers find themselves in a terrifying place where there are only the skeletons of women, but walking skeletons who are taken sexually by visiting soldiers. The travelers visit many lands of the mind and spirit, but never do they find their souls...
...Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rerun of The Jockey, the adventures of a jock from the right side of the track trying to discover whether some guys from the wrong side...