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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meet Lieut. Colonel McGowan. When France fell in June 1940, Ambassador Bullitt returned to the U.S., and Murphy became the top-ranking American in a France divided between the German occupation in the North and the Vichy French government in the South. Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa. In December 1940, Murphy went to Algiers, negotiated a deal with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy...
...once was enough. Labor costs have jumped most in precisely the areas where profits declined most. Last April, Union Carbide's contracts compelled it to hike wages 14? an hour in plants where 40% to 50% of the workers were laid off. In the future, Carbide will aim for one-year wage pacts. As for cost-of-living escalator clauses, says Union Carbide Industrial Relations Vice President Carl Hageman, "we'll take a strike anywhere rather than agree to that...
...wants to scrap long-term contracts altogether. More and more companies now aim at the compromise middle ground of a two-year contract. What U.S. industry also needs is a contract that will give it some of the same protection that U.S. labor gets. Just as labor's wages are often pegged to the cost-of-living escalator, so might they be tied to earnings, with the automatic wage boosts being granted in fat years and withheld in times of temporary recession. In a dynamic economy, the escalators should run in both directions...
...next: the theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld, and TV is in effect bringing vaudeville back to life. Today, show business is bigger, richer, more fascinating than ever. To report the world of show business is the aim of a new section TIME launches this week...
Earnest, persuasive Communist organizers spread out through Caracas slums last week while Red intellectuals addressed classrooms and civic clubs. Their aims: trebling party membership, raising a $150,000 fund to finance party newspapers, and running an intensive "educational, political and ideological campaign among the Venezuelan masses." At a round-table meeting in Caracas, Communist Boss Gustavo Machado sat down cheerily with the leaders of Venezuela's four other parties. His aim: to get an important hand in naming a single unity candidate for President in the November election. Pouring into the political vacuum left by the January overthrow...