Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Semi-Annual Wage. In the Ford negotiations at the red-and-beige Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel, both sides talked-behind a pledge of secrecy -until almost a week before deadline. Then Reuther warned that G.M. had made an offer. Two days later, Ford's Vice President John Bugas presented a "partnership in prosperity" plan...
...population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...
...revolt against him, harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land, Tito sat in his open Rolls-Royce and puffed on his long cigarette holder as a silver two-engined Ilyushin-14, bearing Russia's top leaders, touched down and taxied to the newly asphalted ramp. TIME'S Jim Bell reported...
...cards were put on the table at a crucial bargaining session in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. There, after seven weeks of sparring behind closed doors, Ford made its major counter-offer to the U.A.W.'s demands for G.A.W...
...Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck gold, silver and lead, made $30 million, then gave most of it away to the church and various charities, was known for the rest of his life as "The Dream Man of Utah...