Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africans when blacks can perform the same job, ruled that certain rural businesses be operated by natives only. Kenyatta has also put pressure on big foreign-run companies to step up their management-training programs for black employees. Kenya's Labor Minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa last month warned white and Asian businessmen that unless they train more blacks to fill management positions, they "will be seriously embarrassed and may even be forced out of business in the not-too-distant-future...
...care for the role. U.S. Steel made it clear that its price increases fell far short of covering the cost of the 6% labor wage-and-benefit package negotiated last month, warned that other price changes would be coming from time to time. Aiming a lance at the White House, the company said it was "almost, but not quite universally recognized" that steel prices do not cause inflation, insisted that the cost-of-living culprit lay elsewhere. One place: labor costs, which have risen some 25% over the past ten years, while steel prices have gone up only...
...Word. White House telegrams went to all directors of all steel companies, and the Federal Trade Commission briefly threatened to open an investigation. Over the weekend, the heads of three big defense suppliers-Bethlehem's Martin, C. William Verity of Armco and Thomas Patton of Republic -were summoned to Washington for talks with Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. Before long, their companies were issuing statements that across-the-board did not actually include shell steel, bomb casings, barbed wire and other military items. Defense, for its part, quickly claimed victory...
...Kenya than Mr. Shida. In its eagerness to develop a native cadre of businessmen, however, Kenya must use restraint. Pressed by the government to aid in the effort, many non-African businessmen note that effective training takes time. And a group of University of Nairobi economists, African and white alike, has warned that Africanization, essential as it is, could impair Kenya's continued economic growth if pushed too fast...
Object of the unbankerly attack was a 29-year-old, Yale-educated multimillionaire named William Mathews White Jr., a bachelor who tools around Denver in a fire-engine red International Scout, acts on the belief that "the only people who are ever heard are those who stand above the crowd and shout...