Word: formula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murray knew a good thing when he saw it. His steelworkers' new contract with the Bethlehem Steel Co. was a juicier plum (by 2½? or 5? an hour) than the union had previously hoped to win from the struck steel industry. From now on, the complicated "Bethlehem Formula," would be the basis for the steelworkers' terms...
...going to New York," explained Molony, with a grin, "and I'll see the Colorado Fuel & Iron people. I'll say to them, 'We want the Bethlehem formula.' They'll say to me, 'What is the Bethlehem formula?' "Then I'll pound the table and I'll say, 'What the hell you trying to do-break the union...
...Hopes. Thus, with high hopes, the United Steelworkers set out last week to deal with steel companies who, after five strikebound weeks, were making conciliatory sounds. In contrast to the simple 10?-an-hour plan proposed by President Truman's fact-finders and rejected by industry, the new formula required four typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have to pay by itself...
...play wanders sentimentally back across the years, offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and extramarital complications. Alfred, for whom every age proves a dangerous age, is incurably romantic and roving. Lynn, facing one ticklish domestic situation after another, knows the wise wife's formula for holding her husband: never a cross word and always a puzzle...
...evening editions, which compete chiefly with Hearst's Herald-American, young Field stuck to the old formula: readers got the tabloid mixture as before, with the big play on crime, sex and sensation...