Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Council members elected in December by an undergraduate electorate of 440 were Frank T. LeBart, of the NROTC, Robert B. Palmer, of the NROTC, Irwin M. Arias, of the NROTC, Matthew J. Cullen, Jr. '45, Saul L. Sherman '47, Leo Flynn '46, David B. Wilson '47, and Arthur C. McGill...
...Precision-Built Homes Corp. will offer 40 models priced from $3,700 to $10,000. President F. Vaux Wilson Jr. shuns the word "prefabrication" (as does many another company), proudly points out that Precision-Built will build according to architect's plans selected by individual customers. Builder Wilson originally founded the company to help sell his Homasote wallboards, built 5,000 houses in 138 days for the U.S. Navy in Portsmouth, Va. Department stores are now taking orders. But Precision's Milwaukee plant will not be in production until spring...
...Charlie Wilson was still fighting an ideological battle, contending the U.A.W. was out to destroy free enterprise. But the battle had turned into a simple haggle over prices and wages, and Mr. Wilson was a very lonely man indeed. As long as the steel strike remained in force he could, if he wanted, sit out his own strike without fear of being dangerously outstripped by Ford and Chrysler. But once the steel strike was settled, G.M. would have to get back to work or watch its competitors take over the market...
Sired by Failure. Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...
...Mistress Mine (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) brought the Lunts back to Broadway for the first time in over three years. It did not bring them back in anything worth a toy locomotive's toot, but long before the curtain fell, the glittering first-night audience had ceased to care. The Lunts, as usual, had triumphed in themselves. They had once again proved their magic in vehicle jobs, in turning pushcarts into floats...