Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh public examination of Hoffa's questionable dealings might help his labor bill along in the House-a matter of increasing urgency since Hoffa is now mulling over the idea of creating a nationwide "council" of transport workers with the help of Red-tinged Harry Bridges of the West Coast International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...years of concentrated digging and tons of testimony, Jimmy Hoffa was a more arrogant, more dangerous labor boss than ever. And, as if to prove it, he headed off to Miami Beach to urge the convention of the International Longshoremen's Association to join with the Teamsters and West Coast Longshoremen in one big happy labor family-which, incidentally, would have tight control over the principal arteries of the nation's transportation...
...wild horses and burros of the romantic old West are fast disappearing. Until 15 years ago they still galloped over the Western hills and grasslands in great herds, but since World War II an estimated 100,000 have been captured and cut up into dog food. Today, the Interior Department estimates, no more than 20,000 wild horses still graze on the lone prairies. Last week the wild horses had their day in Congress...
...with the U.S. Compared with U.S. steel wage costs (including fringe benefits) of $3.22 an hour in 1957 (the latest year for which foreign comparisons are available), the Japanese steelworker cost his employer 46? an hour, the French worker 96?, the Italian worker 81?, the British worker 90?, the West German worker $1.01. Once, the U.S. could have made up the difference through its technical superiority, but that advantage is being rapidly whittled away by technical advances abroad...
...auto industry in the mid-19505, but the price she paid caused shudders in the industry; she has now cut her U.S. sheet imports to 100,000 tons. U.S. steel has been virtually cut out of South Africa, is slipping in Argentina, where imports from Japan and West Germany are taking over...