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When Dave Beck and his A.F.L. Teamsters Union set out last February to renew contracts with truckers in eleven Western states, they were after many new benefits. Specifically, they demanded a three-year contract providing a pay increase of 10? an hour this year, 8? more in 1956, 8? more in 1957, plus a pension plan that truckers would finance at 10? an hour. Unexpressed was the union's plan to negotiate a master agreement to cover all trucking in the West. After three months of fruitless negotiations, the teamsters struck three big truckers (Pacific Intermountain Express, Consolidated Freightways...
...Three-Year Preparation. In 1950, the year he won his last great gains in five-year contracts with the auto industry's Big Three (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler), Reuther was already working to win the guaranteed annual wage in the new contract this year. His economists and researchers worked over the figures for three years before agreeing that the guaranteed annual wage (G.A.W.) was practical: "Industry can afford it." His busy educational division churned out pamphlets, posters and propaganda. Auto workers were warned repeatedly that growing automation would cause increasing layoffs unless the workers were protected by G.A.W...
...makers of bathroom fixtures, to succeed John L. Holloway, who resigned because of poor health. Elliott joined Crane 33 years ago in Los Angeles, moved up to branch manager, to Western district manager, to vice president for all sales. President Elliott's first objective: halt Crane's three-year decline in sales and profits (1954 net: $5,800,000 v. $8,700,000 in 1953, $16,200,000 in 1951). To do this, he hopes to cut production costs, boost sales of Crane's bathroom fixtures, industrial valves, fittings, etc., continue diversification into such operations as mining...
Test Pilot William Barton Bridgeman, 38, is the first flyer to write a book telling how it feels to ride a rocket aimed at space and fight the sky at 1,200 miles an hour. In his autobiography Pilot Bridgeman (TIME, April 27, 1953) describes a three-year skirmish in the U.S. campaign against the unknowns of speed and space as a personal battle. The result: one of the year's most fascinating adventure stories...
...their most recent competition, the Crimson crews finished third behind Cornell and Penn in the Eastern Sprint Regatta, thanks to a victory in the freshman race. The '58 boat turned in the fastest freshman clocking in the EARC's three-year history on the Potomac. In the other divisions, however, the jayvees were edged out by Yale for second place, and the varsity was eliminated in the preliminaries for the first time in nine years...