Word: doled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wall Street Journal: Suppose the settlement had been on the basis of the company's proposal, which would have enabled the workers to buy bonds and Ford stock. Is a company-paid dole preferable to ownership in the company? By contrast with the Ford offer, the settlement the union demanded and got is a throwback to a darker age of labor relations. Yet, because the union leaders arbitrarily insisted on this one preconceived plan, they could not even consider alternatives that might have been far more valuable to those they represent...
...Butler turned up in Newcastle, the shipbuilding, coal-mining Labor stronghold where in 1932 more than a third of the working force was on the dole, and where nobody forgets Jarrow, the nearby "town that died...
...refugee problem is one of the biggest the Allied sector has to handle. No one is turned back, but all are carefully screened to week out spies. Lucky ones can find work in the Bundesrepublik but most are fated to exist on dole and live in camps. Two hundred thousand West Berliners, mostly refugees, are unemployed--one-fifth of the labor force...
...Dole. Every year, still more Americans become dependent on foreign trade. U.S. productive capacity is outrunning U.S. domestic demand-and the result is that thousands of business men are seeking bigger outlets abroad. But if overseas customers are to buy more U.S. goods, providing more jobs for U.S. workers, they must obtain the dollars with which to pay for them. In the years after World War II, U.S. foreign-aid programs helped provide these dollars-35 billion of them, not counting military spending. But the era of "donation diplomacy" is past. "The world must soon stand on its own feet...
...winning boat was--Bow, Peter Nitze; 2, Ken Huggins; 3, Bob Dole; 4, Charlie Cunningham; 5, Sam Walcott; 6, Toby Baker; 7, Mike Metcalf; stroke, Platt; coxswain, Mac McLaughlin...