Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deficit to build our future strength?" If our family pursued such a debt-ridden budgetary policy, it would soon be bankrupt and in disrepute. What is now a proud, self-supporting unit would sicken...
...beady-eyed system of cost accounting that has been adopted by the rest of the auto industry only since World. War II, has had ample time to perfect it into a delicate science. G.M. plots its operations department by department four months in advance, budgets man-hours and unit parts down to a fraction of a penny. Under this system, G.M.'s financial men also dog the designers, figure the cost of every bolt, chrome strip and screw, and have unit costs tallied well in advance of final pricing. G.M. thus knows its break-even point precisely: when...
...current predicament of organized labor (TIME, Jan. 25). Union-shop agreements now cover 74% of all U.S. workers covered by collective bargaining agreements, but the number of hourly workers eligible to belong to such unions is being shrunk by what labor experts call "erosion of the bargaining unit." In some industries, notably aerospace, hourly workers are soon upgraded to salaried workers; in others, they are being automated out of jobs. The number of hourly workers in auto plants has dropped from 82.9% of all employees in 1948 to nearly 70% in 1962. Organized labor faces other headaches, such...
Bobby did not pick himself an easy case as a starter. He appeared as amicus curiae in Saunders v. Gray, an immensely complicated case in which Georgia's county unit voting system is challenged. That system which was overturned last year by a lower court, gives nearly eight times as much weight to rural votes as it does to urban votes. It hands control of the legislature to back-country princelings, often assures the election of wool-hat Governors, and, incidentally, minimizes the Negro vote, which is concentrated in the cities...
Before Bobby got around to arguing against the county unit system, he undertook the pleasant task of presenting Senator Teddy for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court. Finally he got down to business. Clad in the customary morning coat and striped pants, he addressed the Justices: "May it please the Court . . ." At first he seemed nervous, even while reading from the brief prepared for him by Solicitor General Archibald Cox and Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall. But as he went on he gained confidence, delivered a firm, finger-jabbing appeal, answered a few gentle questions from the Justices...