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...deal was the termination contracts the unions (Slick's independent pilots' and mechanics' unions, the Tiger locals of the pilots' A.F.L. union and independent mechanics' union) demanded for men lopped off the payroll as a result of the merger. The deal ordered by CAB: a year's salary, or 60% of it for four years. Says Prescott: "We believed that if the volume of business held up there would be relatively few terminations, and those could be paid out of earnings...
...first six months of 1954. Trying to cut costs, they had to trim 900 men off their 3,200-man payroll, and promptly ran head-on into termination claims adding up to as much as $6,000,000. When both the unions and the CAB refused to nullify the contracts, the two lines decided to call off the merger, thus get out from under the union's costly claims...
...great-circle route from the U.S. north to the Orient, hitherto exclusively flown by Northwest. Nyrop, who is confident he can solve the troubles, began his career by studying law at George Washington University while a Senate elevator boy, joined the legal staff of newly created CAB in 1939. At CAA he whittled the budget by $15 million; at CAB he cut mail payments by $13 million annually and got the carriers to kick back $11 million already paid...
...Premier U Nu- he likes to take a brushman's holiday and sketch faces elsewhere. One of his favorite hangouts is in the upper reaches of mid-Manhattan- a nondescript restaurant which is a popular early-morning gathering place for a strange group of customers that ranges from cab drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just a small man with exceedingly bright eyes, bushy brows and a halo of white hair. They do not know his name, but he shares the casual...
...boulder gave them a Geiger count of 10,000. Then they noticed that a landslide ^ from a 200-ft. hill had pushed the "hot" uranium rocks down toward the creek. Said Cab Driver Clem Walton: Nature has done a remarkable thing for us." Working up the hillside, with Geigers clicking, they got counts up to a fantastic 48,000. The prospectors promptly staked out a mile-square claim, named it Mary Kathleen after McConachie's wife, who had died ten days before. As word of the strike hit the newspapers, 14 companies began bidding for the lease. It looked...