Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rivalry with the U.S.: "What country has the largest number of people getting a higher education? Answer: the Soviet Union. What country sent the first Sputniks into the cosmos? Answer: those were Socialist Sputniks. Who wants to overtake whom in science? Answer: the U.S. would like to overtake the Soviet Union." Then, looking down at LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen, he added: "But don't misunderstand me. There is an American girl standing in front. There may be other Americans, too. I don't want to hurt anyone's national feelings. Americans, British-all are good people...
...union's fear is that video taping will largely replace live broadcasting from studios and the I.B.E.W. crews that such broadcasts employ. They further worry that the taping will be taken over by outside companies that do not employ I.B.E.W. technicians. Negotiators for CBS and the union began wrangling in Washington at week's end, with a federal mediator on hand to keep them tuned in to each other...
...Eastern railroads skidded (TIME, April 14). the Erie wheezed in with a quarterly deficit of $2.800.000. pared executives' salaries by 10%. Chemicals and paper companies continued to feel the pinch. For Union Carbide, second biggest U.S. chemical maker (first: Du Pont), the first-quarter net tumbled to 70? a share v. $1.18 a year ago. International Paper Co. sales slipped 10% for the quarter, and earnings will show a sharper drop. In appliances. Whirlpool's per-share earnings were almost halved to 25? a share. Admiral Corp.'s earnings also dipped, and Philco "will undoubtedly show...
Americans were buying more food than ever. Kroger Co. earnings hit a record $1.27, up from $1.14 on fewer shares a year ago. National Biscuit Co. expected slightly better earnings than last year, as did General Baking Co. Grand Union increased its dividend from 18? to 20? a quarter on the basis of record sales. And General Foods, buoyed up by the best first quarter in its history, broke into the elite $1 billion sales club for the first time in the fiscal year ending March...
...Harvard Liberal Union announced yesterday that its forum, scheduled for April 28, has been switched to this Friday, April 25. At the same time, the Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship gave notice that it will also sponsor a forum on the religious controversy, to be held April 28, at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational...