Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservative Columnist David Lawrence, no admirer of Adlai Stevenson, called the proposal "the most significant utterance this year on labor issues by any political figure." Stevenson, said Lawrence, had voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President...
¶ Pennsylvania's A. M. Byers Co. from setting up a centralized maintenance system, although the arbitrator himself conceded that the old decentralized system was inefficient and costly. ¶A Republic Steel plant at Gadsden, Ala. from reducing the ratio of boilermakers' helpers to boilermakers, although methods and...
*Last week American Can Co. and Continental Can Co., Big Two of the U.S. can-manufacturing industry (see BUSINESS), signed new threeyear, 28.2?-an-hour-more contracts with Dave McDonald's Steelworkers-and promptly announced that can prices would have to go up.
Westward a lot of U.S. families have been taking their ways, according to a Census Bureau report issued last week. During the years 1950-58, while the total U.S. population was increasing 15%, the population of the Western states soared 29%, paced by lonely Nevada's dizzying 70% (to...
In early 1957, with the firm's owners grumbling about lean profits despite fat fees (annual gross: up to $400 million), Mamie Averill sensed that an audit was on the way. She resigned to enjoy her clothes and cars and homes until the reckoning that, as a skilled bookkeeper...