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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R. P. GHELARDI...
With bottomless patience the Taylor panel had been trying all week to cut through the murk of charges and counter-charges and down to the core facts of the strike. But they got little help from either Steelworker President Dave McDonald or Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. With nearly 90% of the nation's steelmaking capacity idled since mid-July, with layoffs spreading rapidly through the economy as manufacturers shut down for lack of steel (see BUSINESS), McDonald kept spouting purple rhetoric, Cooper kept spouting dun-grey generalities. Said Chairman Taylor at one of the sessions...
...record nine-month earnings of $189,512,000, up 17% to $2.16 per share for the nation's biggest electrical-equipment firm. Giant International Business Machines had a nine-month profit of $102 million, up 10%. Drugs, retailing and food companies all were up, with cheery reports from R. H. Macy & Co., Upjohn Co., Kroger Co. Ford Motor was doing so well that it declared a 60? extra dividend, the first since public sale of its stock...
...Instinct." That did not stop Willy. After the Berlin blockade, he bought the old Silesian trading firm, Otto R. Krause, then proceeded (with Allied permission) to ship $16 million worth of steel to Grermany's Communist zone. His profit: $1,000,000. With the money he bought a steel mill, a rolling mill, a machine shop. During the Korean war, Schlieker shipped millions of tons of U.S. coal to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of German steel back to the States at handsome profits. When the war was over, he unloaded 50,000 tons of top-priced steel...
Biography of a Missile (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A careful and conscientious biography of a ballistic missile-construction, testing and actual firing. Edward R. Murrow narrates; Dr. Wernher von Braun spells out the science and technology...