Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress passed a bill to spend $7 billion on 800,000 dwelling units over the next several years. The Federal Reserve Board, which had been cautiously tightening up on credit to fight inflation, belatedly reversed its field and loosened credit. Wartime's Regulation W, which had kept a tight...
Hill Called Difficulty. In such a stabilized economy, the power of labor and capital was more nearly in balance than it had been in years. The unions flopped dismally in their No. 1 political objective of wiping out the Taft-Hartley Act, even though their fears that it would cripple...
When the pension issue came to a head in October in the 42-day steel strike that idled 500,000 workers, steelmen showed a notable lack of industrial statesmanship. U.S. Steel tried to rally support, as a matter of principle, for its contention that workers as well as management should...
The sky-high costs that Lewis had imposed on coal had just about priced coal out of the market. Result: Lewis suffered his first contract defeat in years. Production royalties to his pension fund dropped so low by year's end that payments were stopped. Coal production, which had...
In World War II, construction of the Big and Little Inch lines had been a minor wonder-and a major expense that only government could afford. Yet last year, when Claude Williams' Transcontinental