Word: cusswords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry cranes, and huge container vans with detachable wheels and chassis. Union men feared that the new equipment would also replace longshoremen, demanded a contract...
...Midwest is plainly prosperous, but farmers have not yet come to thank the policies of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson; in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa especially, Benson remains a political cussword...