Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would permit the implication that the fair is in satisfactory financial condition." Actually, said Moore, whose bank has a $6,000,000 stake in the fair, the fair will need "several million dollars" to pay expenses before it can even reopen on April 21. Moore was joined in his walkout by a prestigious cast: David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank; William S. Renchard, president of the Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.; Dale E. Sharp, vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.; and William H. Moore, chairman of Bankers Trust...
Education is a wonderful thing, but a $750 million education is expensive by any standards. That is the estimated cost to the U.S. economy of the longshoremen's eleven-day walkout, which broke last week when New York longshoremen voted 2 to 1 to accept a new contract amounting to an 80?-an-hour package over four years. Education was at the heart of the matter, since the longshoremen had first turned down the new contract without really knowing what it was all about, gone on strike, and decided to approve the contract in a new vote only after...
...Strait. Whether or not anyone buys the theory of collusion with China, eyebrows in the West rose at news of the surprise visit to Djakarta in November by Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Last week, while Russia was among those trying to head off Indonesia's U.N. walkout, Peking applauded it, ridiculing the world organization as "a vile place for a few powers to share the spoils." In any case, the objectives of Sukarno and Mao Tse-tung on Malaysia clearly converge: both want the downfall of its pro-West regime-a prospect that holds grave political...
Voluntary Fund. Terrified of the prospect of a Russian walkout, the bulk of the U.N. membership has spent most of the year searching for a formula that might avert the crisis. A 21-nation working committee, followed by a four-nation "good offices committee," proposed a voluntary all-purpose peacekeeping fund so that Russia would not have to contribute directly to operations it considered illegal. The U.S. has offered a variety of minor concessions to Russian pride. So far, Russia's position has not changed. But Secretary-General U Thant was working hard to avoid a showdown, proposed delaying...
Ford's passenger car production is al ready 75% below capacity and unless the walkout ends this week, said President Arjay Miller, the nation's fourth biggest company will screech to a com plete stop. The U.A.W. aggravated the problem by also striking Mack Trucks and White Motor...