Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms included a 13? boost to $1.88 an hour (it was $1.25 in 1945), and 19½? to $2.82 an hour overtime. The boosts were retroactive to Aug. 21, 1948. The new one-year contract will run to Sept. 30, 1949. Other terms gave longshoremen a better break in their working hours and vacation plan, and guaranteed a welfare fund to be worked out by a joint management-labor committee. The welfare and vacation provisions were what worried shipping men, who said they had taken "an old-fashioned shellacking...
During his eight years in power, Muñoz has built the world's largest tax-financed project of individual houses (TIME, Aug. 23), started an $11 million hospital program, raised the percentage of the island's children in school from 49 to 58. But his chief tool for improvement is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. Under the driving management of 38-year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power...
...Street with No Name. Cops & robbers, semi-documentary style, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME, Aug...
...last summer when he and ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman cooked up the idea of an Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The main purpose was to give Britain-as tactfully as possible-the benefit of the best U.S. practice. The first British reaction was one of outraged pride and suspicion (TIME, Aug. 9). But British industry and trades unions have decided, in the main, to string along with Cripps and the council...
...Largo. A G.I. v. old-style gangsters ; Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and Lauren Bacall in an adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME, Aug...