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...both the Cherokee and Seminole nations in her veins and that her parents have told her that Uggams is an Indian word meaning "sweet one." With her parents, she now lives in a glossy new apartment building near Lincoln Center. Buick, sponsor of Sing Along, handed her a Wildcat last year and will soon come through with another 4,000 Ibs. of rolling gratitude. She also gets $2,500 a week and her guest-appearance fee is $10,000. Her allowance is $20 a week. She is as frugal as Scrooge's grand mother with the tangible cash...
...agony of Britain," proclaimed the London Daily Mirror last week. British Ford's agony is acute. Its main plant, which sprawls across the dreary Dagenham mud flats east of London, has what may well be the world's worst labor record: it has been hit by crippling wildcat strikes at the chilling rate of more than one a week for the past five years. "The American owners of this mammoth motor concern," editorialized the usually pro-labor Mirror, "would be justified in writing Britain off as a base for their factories." At Dagenham. irresponsible union shop stewards-some...
...October he fired a troublemaking Communist shop steward. When the other shop stewards called a wildcat strike, Barke refused to yield, and within ten days the strike collapsed. Then Barke refused to rehire 600 of the striking workers-including twelve shop stewards-all of whom he classified as troublemakers...
Well experienced in building conventional aircraft, Grumman produced 17,000 planes during World War II. With its fighters, notably the Wildcat and Hellcat, it did more than any other planemaker to win the war in the Pacific. Sales climbed to $324 million during 1944, then plummeted to $24 million in 1947 as military demand virtually disappeared. Struggling back, Grumman branched into rescue, transport and company planes, as well as aluminum truck bodies, boats and canoes. By last year, sales were at $317 million and profits $6.1 million...
...against Notre Dame. But while he was on the field, Myers completed eleven of 18 passes for 168 yds., threw for two touchdowns and set up two more as Northwestern won, 35-6. Just for good measure, Myers twice passed for two-point conversions. Such performances are just what Wildcat fans have come to expect from their fuzzy-cheeked passing whiz...