Word: working
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's railroads this week served notice on the industry's five operating unions of proposed work-rule changes they want in the next railroad agreement to replace the one that expired last week. Preliminary wage sparring has already gone on. The unions pressed for a 36?-an-hour boost, and the industry has counterproposed a 15? wage slash. Despite the wide gulf in wage proposals, however, the big fight will still be over union featherbedding. To eliminate featherbedding, the rail companies asked the rail unions to: ¶ Extend the basic day's mileage pay from...
...elaborate mediation timetable established by the Railway Labor Act precludes a strike before spring. But the railroads have warned that this time they intend to get changes in work rules even at the cost of a strike...
...Edgar Kaiser insisted that he be free to talk with union leaders on his own. While other steel heads refused to meet personally with the union, Kaiser bargained diligently. He called his settlement "noninflationary." To Edgar Kaiser the time seemed at hand to stop talking and get back to work. Says he: "We do not believe it's right to put people back to work under a court injunction. When you force things upon human beings, you simply make more trouble for yourself in the long run. We think a showdown with labor, an attempt to turn the clock...
EDGAR KAISER'S decisive move to settle with the Steelworkers reflects a lifetime career of troubleshooting. Father Henry J. worked out the broad ideas that built the Kaiser empire, stubbornly pushed them, in the face of ridicule and skepticism. Behind him, putting the ideas to work, came Edgar and a group of University of California college friends, including Eugene E. Trefethen Jr., new vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville...
...flute. Costing $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, depending on the number of components used, the 60s can make 10,000 additions, 3,333 multiplications, 1,666 divisions and 10,000 mathematical decisions each second. One part of the computer even acts as a foreman, assigns work to other parts as they finish their tasks. Thus the machine can handle scores of unrelated problems at one time, ranging from making out a payroll to calculating a trajectory to the moon...