Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dicke" faces a similar problem in a more domestic area, that of social security. German wages have sky-rocketed in the past few years, and a good part of the increases have been due to the benefits received by every German laborer and low-income white collar employee. Welfare payments comprise about 20 per cent of the German national income; in the United States, they are only 6 per cent. The worker is so pampered, in fact, that the Socialists began looking for other issues long...
...direction-post, wnich is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there . . . His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat . . . and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. His person was sleek though free from corpulency...
...economies, vast numbers of unemployed, strong and hostile labor unions. In Dahomey (pop. 2,200,000), the situation is aggravated by the fact that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that "brains are our biggest export"; now it has an increasingly serious white-collar unemployment problem, for newly independent West African nations train their own government officials. The Dahomey rioters also denounced President Maga's "squander-mania," notably the magnificent palace he built himself...
Another economic area that needs Erhard's attention is the nation's social services. Hardly anywhere in the Western world is the worker and the lowerincome white-collar employee so pampered as in West Germany. Erhard would like to reduce the benefits, which dangerously increase the cost of labor. But his party's left wing is so strongly in favor of the elaborate structure built by Konrad Adenauer that Erhard probably has no chance to use his knife in this field...
...Hoover Co. was founded by H. W. Hoover's strong-minded grandfather, who ran a saddle and harness factory in North Canton, Ohio. Despite his comfortable position in saddlery, the elder Hoover foresaw the obsolescence of the horse collar, began experimenting first with horseless-carriage accessories, then with "electric suction sweepers." Vacuum cleaners were by no means new; the first U.S. suction cleaner had been patented in 1869, and seven other models were on the market when the Hoover family began. But the Hoover Co. added an agitation bar to beat the dust out of rugs, leading...