Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Reuther's superior, President Roland Jay Thomas of U. A. W.C. I. O., accused the corporation of bad faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
...pound. Inventor Egloff estimates that his butadiene rubber, if produced in any quantity, can be made to sell for less than 20? a pound. E. I.. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s famed chlorine-containing synthetic rubber (TIME, May 6, 1935), now called "neoprene," is probably superior to butadiene rubber in some respects, but it costs from 65? to 78? a pound...
...SEChairman Joe Kennedy and his aide, SEC General Counsel Judge Johnny Burns (who had been Massachusetts' youngest Superior Court member) became annoyingly literal about applying SEC's Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 to United. United and SEC remained at war for three years...
...September 19 California will put into effect its "Jackie Coogan Law,'' by which the courts will set aside half the cinema earnings of minors in a trust fund protected from their parents. Approved last week by Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson was the first contract written to conform with the act, between Universal Pictures and 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Cinemactress Durbin's earnings in the next five years will total...
...battle, the Japanese, who have modern guns and a vastly superior air force, have won most of the direct engagements with ease. The most successful Chinese tactic is the "scorched earth" policy, which prevents the Japanese from living off the country through which they advance. But in spite of scorched earth and burned buildings, the Japanese have seized the cities and important railroads of North China, and have pushed their lines up the Yangtze valley to Hankow. Japan's conquest at its furthest limits extends 1,000 miles from north to south, 1,000 miles from east to west...