Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line Pilots Association, led by President Clarence Sayen, 39, also talked tough. Sayen, once a professional pilot for Braniff, blasted American Airlines as having the "worst goddamned labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering...
...most quoted threats to Rambler are the small cars the Big Three talk about bringing out and Studebaker's Lark, introduced this fall, which sells for slightly more than the Rambler American. Last week Ward's Automotive Reports said that General Motors and Ford will have their small cars in production "early in '59." G.M. and Ford declined to comment, but most auto experts think this is much too early, since the companies apparently have not yet placed any production orders for parts. Detroit does not expect Big Three small cars before November 1959, if then...
...greedy landlord whose subjects are on the edge of revolt. Helen and Odysseus are, up to a point, two of a kind. When he suggests that they run off, she agrees, and they slip away to Crete. There the King is old and sterile; there, too, the people talk revolution and the blond barbarians from the north are muscling in. The old King marries Helen, and Odysseus, after adventures of fierce brutality, leaves Crete without her and sails to Egypt...
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). California's most celebrated recent immigrant in a talk, with a couple of guests, on the subject of child adoption...
...delegates heard a talk Saturday morning by Quentin Anderson, head of Columbia's Humanities Department, on "The General Education Program," in which the speaker held that the purpose of any general education program is "to make a whole...