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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another of the Council's accomplishments was the approval of the election of Robert F. Fuller '50 as new chairman of the College NSA chapter, Fuller was elected by the other NSA delegates...
Next day, B. F. Goodrich offered 16,000 rubber workers a 10?-an-hour pension and insurance program. The Goodrich offer supplemented a small program already in force-one to which workers contributed. The rubber workers' union accepted and the workers ended a month-old strike. Then the International Harvester Co. offered 65,000 employees a 10?-an-hour welfare package-on condition that workers also kick in something...
Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...
...Willow Run last week, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. laid off 5,000 workers and stopped production for six days for "inventory adjustment." While the shutdown gave K-F dealers, whose sales had been lagging, a chance to cut down the supply of cars' on hand, it also gave Wall Streeters a scare. K-F stock, which had tumbled from 15 5/8 to 3 3/8 in 21 months, dropped another s of a point to a 1949 closing...
...days later the stock bounced up again to 4 3/8. At week's end RFC let out some news which might explain the rise. K-F had been dickering for a $30 million . loan since May, and if "all requirements are met" the RFC might be disposed to grant it. Detroit buzzed with rumors that Kaiser would use such a loan to retool for his long-promised, light low-priced car to compete with Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth...