Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Prohibition came, the vintners either ground out tons of grape juice or sadly closed down their presses and let their plump grapes wrinkle up into raisins. After repeal, the vineyards recovered only slowly, did not begin to produce wine they could be proud of till the late 1930s...
Goldberg will need all the knowledge and guts he can muster-for organized labor is in trouble. The great labor surge of the 1930s and '40s and '50s has slowed to a standstill. Although the total U.S. work force has risen by 5,000,000 since 1955-A.F.L.-C.I.O. membership (excluding expelled unions) has dropped from 13,500,000 to 13,300,000. Such statistics tell only a small part of the story. With the basic rights of labor firmly secured by law, and after major postwar breakthroughs in the field of pensions, cost-of-living escalators, supplemental...
...young workers join unions because they want to or because they think they ought to; they join because, under company-union contracts, they have to in order to get jobs. In last week's U.A.W. walkouts, bored pickets paced perfunctorily, showing little of the zealot enthusiasm of the 1930s. In the past 20 years, the average hourly wage of a steelworker has zoomed from 90½? to $3.82, and the pattern has been followed in other major industries. But with the zoom, the zip has gone. Says an Electrical Workers' official in Colorado: "Our members used to ride...
Died. G. (for George) Ward Price, 75, intrepid London Daily Mail correspondent who covered every European conflict from the Balkan War of 1912 through World War II, scored a succession of 1930s scoops as a Hitler confidant and apologist ("Behind the forceful character which Hitler displays in public, there is a pleasant personality known only to his intimates"); after a long illness; in London...
Died. John B. (for Bright) Kennedy, 67, radio's pungent Garroway precursor, onetime managing editor of Collier's, who moderated Mutual's folksy People's Rally in the 1930s, gave the first network airing to scores of notables, including Al Smith; following intestinal surgery; in Toronto...