Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kassem defenders turned hostile: in Lebanon a crowd of 3,000 battled police in a drive to overrun the Iraqi embassy, and Beirut's Le Soir, long friendly to the Baghdad regime, fulminated, "Dipped in blood to the roots of their hair, will the masters of Baghdad never tire of assassinating people...
...TIRE PRICE INCREASES for auto and truck tires are coming soon. Truck manufacturers have been notified of 3-5% price hikes, and passenger-car-tire increases are expected...
...costs competitive with other plants in the same areas." As a result, the unions pulled out 18,000 workers at Swift plants in 34 cities, started to pull out 5,500 Wilson workers in seven cities, but extended the old contract another week to continue negotiations. ¶ In the tire 10?-an-hour wage increases to more than 80,000 workers, narrowly averting a strike...
With an ear to such warnings, businessmen have begun to pay more heed to spreading the dividends of increased production and cost-cutting automation. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced an "anti-inflation" cut of 5% to 15% in prices of replacement tires. Norge reduced its washer and dryer tags as much as 10%. The Federal Communications Commission chimed in, ordered a reluctant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to reduce long-distance telephone rates (for calls of more than 300 miles) by $50 million. In heavy industry-where cuts trickle down eventually to the consumer-General Electric lopped...
Human personalities are infinitely diverse and defy all efforts to stuff them into neat pigeonholes, but the classifiers never tire of trying. Latest classifier is Hungarian-born Psychoanalyst Michael Balint, 62, who has lived in Britain since 1939. His basic breakdown: people are either ocnophils or philobats...