Word: worthingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should go up only as productivity does. Steelworkers figure that they have been boosting productivity by somewhat more than 3% a year, while the steelmakers contend that the rise is 2% or less. Last week management's argument was publicly voiced by U.S. Steel Corp. President Leslie B. Worthington, 59, a coal miner's son who rose through sales to become second in command (to Chairman Roger Blough) of the world's biggest steelmaker. Said the usually soft-spoken Worthington...
Strapping Steel. What worries Worthington is that blue-collar workers may get undue credit for productivity rises for which they are only partly responsible, and on the strength of this inflated claim get extravagant wage-and-benefit increases that would eat into profits and leave the steel companies strapped for funds for capital expansion. "In 1960,'' said Worthington, "European countries invested some 10% of their gross national product in capital equipment, while we devoted only 5% to this purpose. Why? The answer is we have been discouraging the flow of investment capital. As a percentage of gross national...
...Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about her birth. Apple Annie? The girl never heard of her. She thinks her mother is the worthy Mrs. E. Worthington Manville, no less...
...Worthington, Ohio, Playhouse on the Green: The Drunkard...
...Worthington Miner, who has had a hand in producing such TV milestones as Studio One and Play of the Week, told the committee that sponsors often insist on contracts specifying a minimum number of killings or shootings per program. He also went out of his way to serve as a sort of one-man Berlitz course in Madavenue lingo. Example: "longterm recall" is something vital that admen ascribe to viewers who remember a given show for more than, say, ten minutes. But Miner's outstanding contribution was one of those sponsor-interference anecdotes that spring from...