Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reuther's heart was clearly not in his work. With new contract negotiations coming up within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
...British might have done better if, in addition to holding their fair, they had sent an army of hard-hitting salesmen to invade the U.S. Many fine old British industries, such as pottery and cutlery, which do a steady but limited trade with the U.S., often have no sales program; they merely wait for orders. Other enterprises send salesmen abroad who do not know their way around the U.S. market...
Most British businessmen complain of stock difficulties-the high cost of raw materials, the heavy taxes they bear to maintain Socialist Britain's welfare program, and that old devil, the U.S. tariff. Some Americans, among them ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman (TIME, April 11), hold that this complaint has a sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share...
Last week, the Perón regime's nationalization program, which had already absorbed railroads, telephones and other utilities, took over Dodero's ships, his shares in an airline, and all the rest of his Argentine business property except five apartment houses. The terms were those of a forced sale: 26 million pesos (less than $3,000,000) for the controlling stock...
...often tasteless. They point out that television is still in its infancy and declare that Berle just happens to be the man who is taking candy from the baby. Nonetheless, the Berle show's New York Hooperating stands at 80-the highest of any regular TV or radio program-and his audience in the 24 cities that see him "live" or on kinescope film two weeks later is reliably estimated...