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...union Building and Construction Trades Department took what seemed a momentous step toward eliminating such cost-boosting practices. Announced at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Miami Beach was an anti-featherbedding code quietly drawn up over the past three years by the building-trades union and spokesmen for the National Constructors Association, whose members account for 90% of the U.S.'s heavy construction. The man behind the code: old (70) Bricklayer Richard James Gray, the B.C.T.D.'s unorthodox president, who shocked his fellow labor leaders at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City, NJ. two months...
...post-Sputnik era many a Congressman had raised his voice asking for the Administration to show "leadership." The Administration showed it by attacking the nation's $5 billion-a-year farm giveaway in an election year-when the money is sorely needed for defense. Judging by its first spokesmen, Congress was in no mood to deal with the issue...
...ugly and distasteful as the word subsidy may be," said Alpert, "I consider it a welcome alternative to a loss of service or bankruptcy." But Ernest S. Marsh, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, came out strongly against any Government subsidy for the railroads, was joined by spokesmen from other roads in the South and West, which do not have to cope with the commuter problem. Said Harry A. DeButts, president of Southern Railway: "I would hate to see any further Government control over the railroads...
...Spokesmen for the Club emphasized that staging the Wellesley production in Cambridge did not stem from the Club's financial difficulties. The Club is in very good shape financially, a Club representative asserted...
...formal speeches and offhand comments, the Administration's spokesmen have well telegraphed the direction of federal spending for fiscal 1959. The direction: up. The big item: $39 billion to $40 billion for defense, a $2 billion or so increase from fiscal 1958. Last week the Administration also telegraphed its overall policy for fiscal 1959: defense needs will shape the size of the budget, not vice versa...