Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the union came a roar: "Conspiracy to violate the antitrust laws." Union officials sent letters to Washington, asking the Justice Department to investigate the pact, the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether steel firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...
...there are signs that the housing tide has not reached its peak. The number of mortgage-insurance applications to the FHA is so great that the agency has had to revise its estimate for the current fiscal year from 962,500 to "well over one million" unit applications...
...industry's sales were slow, sliding along at roughly the 1956 level of $3.2 billion. This season is shaping up as the hottest in the industry's 57-year history. Carrier Corp., the industry's Goliath (total 1958 sales: $252.5 million), is selling room units 32% ahead of last year, and Fedders Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower's Gettysburg farmhouse to King Saud's Saudi Arabian harem, topped last year...
...YORK, May 14--President Eisenhower proposed tonight that the federal government underwrite the cost of a $100 million research unit to help preserve America's freedom in the nuclear...
...Proposes Research Unit...