Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army generals wanted the Defense Secretary to define the role of the Marine Corps, hoped it would be to Army prescription, i.e., virtually to limit the Marines to small-unit Commando work and overseas police duties. If this were done, the Marines would require units of no more than brigade strength (8,000), would probably also have to take a big cut in overall strength. The Army could go ahead on the assumption that only the Army would run off the big land operations if war should come, could thus have all the planning under one roof...
France needs labor, and Italy has a labor surplus. So the two have undertaken to organize a labor migration. France and Italy will go into the market as one unit to buy essential imports. Together they will try to build up markets for their export industries. A committee is working out ways to share port trade between the two great rivals, Genoa and Marseille...
...would go on, in drastically different form, under diminutive Clinton D. McKinnon, a shrewd newsman who pyramided a string of Southern California throwaway shopping papers into the million-dollar San Diego Journal (which he recently sold). He offered to take over from Field if the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild unit would abandon its tough PM contract and meet his tough terms, including the right to hire & fire at will for three months. The reported price tag: $300,000 for plant & equipment...
When it started bargaining last fall on a new contract, the New England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
Department stores were still waiting for the Easter rush. Dollar sales were still above last year (by about 5%), but unit sales had slipped alarmingly. And the $372 million slump (10%) in charge accounts between Dec. 31 and Jan. 31 had been a good bit more than seasonal. Merchants were worried...