Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As industrialization called forth new skills, the French workingman's average pay jumped 60% (to $80 monthly) in a decade; Danes and Norwegians average 84? an hour, v. 42? ten years ago, while Swedes get a minimum $1.16 an hour, v. 50? an hour in 1948. The British secretary...
Soda Pop & Slocks. "The poor working class no longer exists in England today," says Donald Tyerman, editor of London's Economist. The so-called proletariat that was the bulwark of socialism and Communism is giving way to an immensely enlarged middle class, intent on acquiring all the trappings of...
As for those familiar national caricatures, says John Treasure, managing director of British Market Research Bureau Ltd., "the stereotype of the typical Englishman is changing; the 'new Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a...
(9 of 11) says that he is just a bit dubious at finding himself in step with the herd. The crystal-ball gazers predict that the national product will jump to a $500 billion rate in the first quarter, race on to $525 billion or better before leveling off at...
With production high and unemployment low (4% of the work force), the forecasters see good business ahead. Tight credit may cause the housing industry to slip slightly to a rate of 1,200,000 homes. But Detroit's automakers have visions of a 7,000,000-car year in...