Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In autos, bounding back from the red ink of 1958, Ford Motor Co. led the march far into the black. Chairman Ernest Breech reported that Ford's second-quarter earnings of $2.76 a share (Ford lost money in the same quarter last year) were the highest for any quarter...
When Rock Island railroadmen complained about their corncob-filled caboose mattresses half a century ago, they unknowingly baptized a working practice that is as old as man's labor and as fresh as this week's news. Chided the trainmaster: "What do you want-featherbeds?" Since then, featherbedding...
management and labor. Today the practice pads U.S. labor costs by more than $1 billion a year, plagues a broad spectrum of industries ranging from trucking to show business, printing to airlines. This year, as part of industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of...
From the ricksha-cluttered commercial district of Shanghai to the waterfront of Tientsin, hardly a Western businessman could be found last week in all of Red China. The traders who came and went with revolving-door regularity only a few months ago, crying the benefits of trade with the Chinese...
When it started its highly touted trade offensive short months ago, Peking lured Western businessmen with offers of $7 violins. $23 sewing machines, $14 bicycles, promised to deliver nails, newsprint and electric motors at prices far below Japanese goods. But haste to gather foreign exchange to cover a huge trade...