Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor talked tough to a Congress that had shown signs of getting tough toward labor. To ease the impact of peacetime conflicts, hoping to forestall a wave of labor strife, the Administration moved urgently. But the hard fact was that sudden peace had caught the Government unprepared; it was not ready for labor's conversion from the uses of wartime regulation and arbitration to peacetime methods of bargaining...
...tough talk to its members, N.A.B. recommended a new set of ABCs. Radio stations were advised...
...Chevrolet's Marvin E. Coyle, 57, who will have the tough job of designing and selling the smaller and cheaper Chevrolet which G.M. plans to make...
...cars fight each other for their share of the market. In war, G.M. showed the same fluidity. Example: it was the only auto company which made planes in an auto plant. It took on the hardest jobs it could get from the Army & Navy; Mr. Sloan likes to crack tough nuts. In all it turned out an incredible total of $12 billion in materiel...
...Charlie Wilson who will sit down and face the union across the bargaining table. Sloan has never done the actual bargaining with the U.A.W. An engineer by training, C.E. stepped into Big Bill Knudsen's place when Knudsen went off to war, soon showed himself a tough, quick-witted bargainer, and superlative production man as well...