Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week and handed a sheaf of papers to Clifford Hood, president of U.S. Steel. Thus the steelmakers opened negotiations for a new contract. There was nothing new or unexpected in the union's 22 contract demands-a guaranteed annual wage, "substantial" wage increases, premium pay for weekend work-and the first session brought out no fireworks. Nevertheless the session made history. Sitting around the table were representatives not only from giant U.S. Steel but from Bethlehem and Republic as well-the Big Three which employ 60% of all steel labor and make 55% of all steel...
...bulkily erect. Unknown to Wilson, the telephone even then was buzzing in his Sheraton-Park apartment 700G. Capital newsmen wanted to speak to him. The review over, the pleased and proud Defense Secretary drove to the plane that would take him to Virginia's Hot Springs for the weekend. But at the National Airport newsmen swarmed over him with stinging questions. Wilson turned to an aide, said reproachfully: "I thought you told me there wasn't anything hot going on." It was a brilliant, cloudless Armed Forces Day 1956-a day set aside for the services to parade...
Andy, of course, is a goof artist. He is a menace on the rifle range, gets his outfit gigged for dirty barracks, spends a weekend emergency pass for home with one of the blonde natural beauties of Southern California. Then, one day, he kicks a live grenade into a sump and saves a buddy's life. He becomes an overnight hero and, more slowly, a soldier...
...another field, there would seem to be a strong possibility that a degree in literature will be offered. If so, leading contenders appear to be either Lewis Mumford or W. H. Auden. Elsewhere over the weekend, Helen Hayes, a leading female candidate for a degree, did not wait for Harvard to start celebrating her 50th year in the theater. She received a degree from St. Mary's College on Saturday in South Bend, Indiana...
...will present could cost as much as 60? an hour for every worker, increase the average cost of $129-a-ton finished steel upwards of $12 a ton. But steelmen guessed that McDonald would settle for considerably less. At the top of the package is the demand for increased weekend pay, which alone could boost labor costs by 30? per man-hour. The Steelworkers' main objective is to put workers on a Monday-Friday week, though this would demand widespread reorganization of the industry. Jones & Laughlin Chairman Ben Moreell was hopeful last week that if "the union lets...