Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same day as the nickel increase, major U.S. producers of lead lifted their prices by 1/2?per Ib., to 16?, the sixth increase this year. Almost immediately, General Battery Corp. said that automotive and industrial batteries, which contain much lead, would go up. 5%. The higher lead prices reflect greater world demand for the metal and a paucity of new supplies...
...reason, of course, was the six-week-old strike against G.E. Whether the boycott will force the company to budge remains to be seen. Union boycotts generally have been ineffective. Indeed, at the scheduled start of the G.E. boycott on the day after Thanksgiving, no pickets showed up in major cities, though the unions promise that there will be many this week. Its determination is a sign of the growing bitterness in U.S. labor relations. Union men, whose pay raises in the past few years have barely kept pace with price boosts, increasingly feel that corporations and the Government...
...middle of this week, the U.S. could face the worst labor trouble of the year: a strike by 15 shop unions against the major railroads. The indications last week were that a settlement would be reached in time to prevent the walkout. If the strike occurs, however, President Nixon will probably have to break his pledge to keep hands off union disputes and request special legislation to settle the walkout. Whatever the outcome, the U.S. has reason to be uneasy. Unions will have to negotiate new contracts for some 4,000,000 workers next year-in what seems certain...
Sweden has not had a major strike since 1945. Norway has had no strikes at all since 1965. Denmark has a less enviable record, but in terms of work days lost by strikes, it is almost 50 times better than...
When Roseberg tried to sell the invention to several major corporations, including Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., he met only indifference. Reluctantly, he turned again to Zeiger for financial help. They formed "RX COUNT Corp." in Hawthorne, Calif., produced 75 pill counters, and leased them to Los Angeles County drugstores for two years of testing and refining. Roseberg and Zeiger concluded that leasing would be more profitable for them and more convenient for many druggists, who are reluctant to buy new equipment outright...