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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservative Columnist David Lawrence, no admirer of Adlai Stevenson, called the proposal "the most significant utterance this year on labor issues by any political figure." Stevenson, said Lawrence, had voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In the Red. Stubbornness and irresponsibility on both sides have blurred the issues in the U.S.'s most momentous labor-management clash since the 1930s, and the Eisenhower Administration has contributed to the blurring. Within itself, the Administration is divided on the steel strike. Labor Secretary James Mitchell favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Against the background of swollen costs and intensifying foreign competition, the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Roger Blough, decided to take a stand on two propositions in this year's contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers: 1) increases in wages and fringe benefits must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Despite loud bargaining noises, the two sides have come comfortably close to agreement on wages (the company's last offer was a 30? package increase over three years-to an average $3.40 an hour -which the union says is really 22?). But the basic issue was industry's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

¶ Bethlehem Steel from contracting scrap-recovery operations at the Johnstown, Pa. plant to an outside firm, although the contractor's operations, using specialized machinery, were far more efficient than the recovery methods Bethlehem had been using.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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