Word: offers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solve the canal question by offering to annex Panama to the U.S.? Panama is already thoroughly gringoized. Offer Panama commonwealth status, its inhabitants American citizenship, its industry the American market. In time, along with Puerto Rico, it might be made a state. The two working together could preserve their Spanish heritage...
...WILL SUPPORT MY UNION, proclaimed red and white buttons displayed by workers in steel mills across the U.S. last week. It seemed certain that when the 600,000 United Steelworkers vote in a Taft-Hartley election a fortnight hence on whether to accept management's "last offer," the answer will be an overwhelming no. Steelworkers are in wide agreement with the union contention that steel management, in its demand for the right to change plant work practices, is out to bust the union. "We can't go against our union," explained Andrew Szocka, electrician at the U.S. Steel...
This week the presidential Taft-Hartley fact-finding board, headed by Mediator George William Taylor, will receive from the steel companies the offer that the workers will vote on in company-by-company, secret-ballot referendums. The offer: a three-year wage-and fringe-benefit package that, as the industry reckons it, would increase labor costs by 2.7% a year, or about 30? an hour over three years (present steel wages average $3.10 an hour, plus fringe benefits). According to Labor Department figures, 2.7% has been just about the average yearly increase in steel-industry productivity (output per manhour) since...