Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brash Kid." The eldest son of a Russian immigrant factory worker, Sam Newhouse got his first chance at turning a profit from publishing as a 16-year-old clerk for a New York judge. When the judge got control of the floundering Bayonne (N.J.) Times, he gave Newhouse a try at running the show. Within a year Newhouse had whipped the Times into the black ("I guess I was a pretty brash kid"). In 1922 he drummed up $98,000 and bought the Staten Island Advance...
Shirtsleeved Taylor. Max Taylor's vice chief of staff since 1957, Lemnitzer has been philosophically in tune with Taylor, though opposite in personality; he is a messy-desk man and a shirtsleeve worker. But his achievements in that post are monuments to the Army's perseverance in the age of missiles and space. Lemnitzer's chief political victory: staving off an attempt, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to take away the Army's top missileers-Werner von Braun and associates...
...Democratic Congressman Randall S. Harmon, 55, who has been collecting $100 a month from the Government for renting out his own front porch to himself for an office in Muncie, announced that the Post Office Department owed him money, too. Declared Harmon, a political rolling stone and onetime tool worker who tumbled into office with last fall's Democratic landslide: The Muncie post office used his versatile porch for a drop-off station for sacks of mail for nine years. The tab: $1,800. Replied Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield: "No legal basis...
...other businesses is public taste so fickle, the worker so temperamental, the unexpected so common. Lieberson's gift is that he thrives on all three. "This business is like running a gambling house," he says. "You've got to cover yourself in all directions...
...United Steel Workers' Boss Dave McDonald, the coming bargaining with the steelmakers poses a problem. He has to get something for his unionists, but the steelmakers, like the automen last spring, seem in a pretty parsimonious mood. Last week McDonald came out with an idea that he hoped would please his steel workers, and not cost too much for the companies. He suggested a three-months' vacation with pay for each worker every five years. "At current rates." said McDonald, "this would cost the industry no more than 12? an hour per man and would create...