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Luring the Dollars. Scotch whisky has long been the chief dollar-earner for Britain (though now rivaled by English automobiles). Scottish woolens, cardigans and tweeds are thriving. The little cashmere-sweater town of Hawick, with a working population of only 3,500, earned some $10 million in foreign currency last year -almost $3,000 per worker. To keep the dollars rolling in, the Scottish Council makes continuing surveys of foreign markets, puts out a monthly magazine listing export opportunities, and peppers Scottish exporters with useful tips, such as: "The president of the Canadian Association of Purchasing Agents is a Scot...
...embittered, somewhat radical partisan of the underprivileged. When another bank offered him a better job in upstate Norwich, much of the radicalism rubbed off ("Banking," said Ives last week, "has a tendency to make one a little more conservative"), but Ives remained a sympathetic champion of the wage earner...
...staple of her chemical industry, on which the shipping costs alone are $12 a ton. Some of her prewar export markets are closed to her by the Bamboo Curtain, others by old hatreds, others by stiff free-world competition. Japanese silk, which used to be her biggest dollar earner, has been knocked out by modern synthetic fibers...
...underpaid, overtaxed wage earner, it is difficult to describe my disgust at reading ''A Federal Sales Tax" [Sept...
Such workers are heavily handicapped because 1) any wage earner over 40 has a bad time getting a new job except in a boom, 2) many big corporations insist on compulsory retirement at 65. The difficulties of the over-40 jobseekers are based on the widespread belief of many companies that they are less efficient. This was reflected in a Temple University questionnaire, in which 31% of the industries polled expressed the belief that the work of older people tends to be poor. Paradoxically, the same questionnaire also proved this belief false. In rating the work of their own employees...