Word: earned
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...prove nearly as disastrous as a strike, by pricing Swedish goods out of world markets. Swedish labor-already the highest paid in Europe-won a package of shorter hours and higher pay that will boost employers' wage costs by 30% over three years. Example: Stockholm construction workers will earn $3.20 an hour, work 42½ hours a week. Said Prime Minister Tage Erlander: "We do see some inflationary dangers...
Fortunately, food remains cheap and 1913-vintage rent control keeps the cost of city housing down to a mere $4 to $8 per month. Even so, Austrian workers earn an average of only $1,500 a year, and the Austrian standard of living lags so far behind that of its Western neighbors that some analysts fear a massive emigration of skilled manpower...
Cameras & Chickens. The war's effect on employment has been significant. South Korea, along with 45,000 fighting men, is dispatching to Viet Nam 3,000 civilian plumbers, carpenters, welders and crane operators who will work for U.S. companies and earn ten times what they would have at home. As a result, 12,000 applicants turned up when the jobs were advertised. In Japan, the Yokosuka naval shipyard is jammed with U.S. Navy repair orders, and work is being let out to civilian yards. Both Taiwanese and Japanese plants are repairing U.S. and Vietnamese planes. On Okinawa, because...
Sensory Impact. Enthusiasm is just as high at Washington's all-Negro Scott Montgomery School, where three-fourths of the students' families earn less than $3,000 a year, and half have only one parent at home. The films, say's Negro Principal Nathaniel Dixon, let the school "take these children to places where they have never been-to distant lands, to the outer limits of space, to the world beneath the sea, to farm and factories." He finds that "the sensory impact of motion, sound and color" stimulates slow learners. Besides that, first-graders are proud...
Stan Musial, one of the first baseball players to earn $100,00, said today that demands of Drysdale and Koufax not entirely unreasonable, but he doubled that the two would get a joint contract...