Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Patiño's Indians went on strike, and the tin empire and Bolivia trembled. A week after the deadline for re-enactment of an enlightened labor code, workers at the Catavi mines walked out, demanding a 100% wage increase, a Christmas bonus, which they claimed was theirs by law, and the end of the company stores (virtually their only source of food and clothing) which kept them constantly in debt...
...aranda's Problems. Ernesto Galarza, Chief of the Pan American Union's Labor and Social Information Division, accused the U.S. Government of likewise urging Bolivia to stand pat on present wage levels. His charge: U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had discussed the new labor code with President Peñaranda "for the obvious purpose of delaying the application of the wage provisions. . . . Clearly his purpose was to head off a rise in the cost of tin to the U.S. . . . The American Government is placing itself in the position of attempting to aid in the denial of those...
When Napp and 37 other secret Axis agents were arrested (TIME, Dec. 14), it looked as though Argentine authorities were really going to clean Axis spies out of the capital. The Government had limited Axis diplomatic-code cables to 100 words a day, and the Argentine press played up testimony on the activities of the spy ring which left no doubt in the minds of Argentines. The well documented memoranda of U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour (TIME, Nov. 16) seemed to have been taken seriously and in good faith...
Completing their course of training this week, the 40-odd members of the Psychology Department's course in Continental Code were awarded their certificates of accomplishment yesterday after approximately nine weeks of work...
Conducted by Donald W. Taylor, teaching fellow in Psychology, as the basis for a thesis, the course is an experiment in the methods of rapid teaching of Code, and by working an hour a day five days a week he has brought the class to the point where two-thirds of them have surpassed the objective of the program, and can receive and send at least 13 words per minute...