Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In demanding work-rules changes to increase efficiency, the steel companies had a strong case to make. And the steelworkers, for their part, had never been a union dedicated to featherbedding. By trying to make the changes in a sweeping manner, the steelmen had solidified labor into a newly militant...
Spokesman for the important policy change was the U.S.'s No. 2 diplomat, Under Secretary of State (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon. "Either we move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions," he told the 54 nations represented at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
The new strings on the DLF were more symbolic than revolutionary, for the DLF's annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched...
Into the Pentagon last week drummed word from the White House that defense spending for fiscal 1961 must be held at or below the present $41 billion level. The services estimated that they would need $43 billion to $44 billion just to maintain present strength and cope with the rising...
A Special Poverty. Behind the posture of serenity, his friends and backers are convinced, Senator Symington burns with a longing for the White House every bit as intense as Senator Kennedy's. In everything he ever took up, whether business, politics, tennis, golf or bridge, Stu Symington has been...