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...bargaining. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg has no plans to step into every strike that appears on the horizon of the New Frontier, plans to save his referee's whistle for situations where major sections of the economy are involved. But Goldberg's intervention in the New York tugboat and railroad strike (see Labor), however dramatic and however salutary at the moment of its settlement, may well make it harder for the Administration to carry out its planned policies...
...tried, and failed. New York state's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller tried, and made no visible progress. Then, on the day after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Labor, longtime Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg flew to Manhattan to make his own effort toward ending the railroad-tugboat strike that had stranded some 100,000 commuters and stalled railroad travel as far west as Chicago. After 14 hours behind closed doors with union and management negotiators, Goldberg emerged triumphant-and next day the trains began to run again...
...required only 660 well-paid (from $440 to $674 per month) railroad tugboat workers, plus a blizzard, to bring complete and even desperate confusion last week to New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast. Early in the week, tugboat-union pickets marched outside Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher...
...world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama and literature, and became indispensable to teenagers and tugboat captains alike. Most people never notice the telephone until it goes out of order-and a good many believe it was invented by Don Ameche. But A. T. & T. always has its eye-and its corporate mind-on the public. For its working ways, and what it plans...
Gordon and Small went on to produce pilot films for such shows as Lassie, Charlie Chan, Tugboat Annie, The Halls of Ivy and Count of Monte Cristo. T.P.A. then sold the pilots, got such sponsors as National Biscuit, Campbell Soup and International Harvester to help pay for the production costs on the series. In 1957 Producer Small returned to making features on a full-time basis, sold his interest back to T.P.A...