Word: blue-collar
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...Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely by well-to-do, conservative-leaning commuters to San Francisco, nearby Stanford University exerts a liberalizing influence, and subdivisions have attracted a big influx of blue-collar workers...
That, nonetheless, is the rating that she covets, and with good reason. Mrs. Hicks collected 28.1% of last week's vote (compared with White's 19.8%), principally from the large blue-collar and lower-middle-class groups who feel bypassed by federal and city welfare programs and who support her unsuccessful attempts to block measures promoting public-school integration...
...reliance on action--confrontation and protest--rather than ideology has enabled SDS in the middle phase of its development to include a wide variety of personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair...
...draftsmen, engineers and office managers. With even the supply of qualified women limited, some companies are going outside the U.S. for help. The Bendix Corp.'s Davenport, Iowa, plant, which last year went to England to hire eleven engineers, is now planning to go back to lure skilled blue-collar workers...
...patient per day compared to 1.5 in 1946. About 62,000 more registered nurses are wanted; so are 3,000 janitors and maids, whom hospitals find hard to hire because of relatively low wages. Skilled engineers and technicians have long been in short supply, but so now are such blue-collar workers as tool-and diemakers, painters and auto mechanics, who can make up to $18,000 a year. Around-the-clock businesses like hotels are finding it difficult to compete for cashiers and telephone operators with 9-to-5 companies who offer a five-day work week as well...