Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight-year pilots, but demanded that pilots continue to fly 85 hours a month, the maximum allowed by the old contract. ALPA asked a scale up to $27,500 for the same senior pilots, but wanted monthly flying time cut to 75 hours. Unable to resolve the differences, union and management broke off negotiations, and ALPA grounded pilots as each post-midnight flight ended. No pickets appeared. Said one pilot: "Why should we walk a picket line? Nobody's going to fly the airplanes if we're not there...
...walkout meant that two of the four major U.S. airlines were at a standstill. Eastern Air Lines, largest operator on north-south air routes, has been strikebound since the flight engineers' union walked out Nov. 24 in a disagreement over jet crew makeup. With airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed...
...this year his virgin-lands program paid off in a big harvest, and Nikita, ending an official Soviet statistic silence as to farm production that has lasted throughout his five-year reign, bragged that in 1958 the Soviet Union had harvested a 137 million-ton grain crop. He also asserted that this year Soviet milk production would top that of the U.S. for 1957, that Soviet butter production now surpassed the U.S.'s, that Soviet wool output was now 2.3 times that of the U.S. and second only to Australia's in the world. Only in meat production...
...that of Lappa Island opposite Macao (TIME, Dec. 22) added to the national loss of face from the failure of Red guns and planes to "liberate" Quemoy and the offshore islands (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The antlike life of the communes had been greeted abroad by coolness in the Soviet Union, by horror in the West, by outspoken distaste in India. Crossing the border to Hong Kong, an Indian population expert last week said that Red China "was like a big zoo'' and "in all my travels there I never saw any real sense of happiness in any face...
Married. Harry Bridges, 57, boss of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; and Noriko Sawada, 35, Nisei secretary; after difficulty with a Nevada miscegenation law; in Reno (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...