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...contractors group anticipated that at its 1960 peak the 41,000-mile superhighway program will employ no fewer than 900,000, half of them building, half of them producing the materials and services needed. It also predicted that by 1960 road construction will reach $8 to $9 billion a year (1956 level: about $5.1 billion). Projecting estimates of the American Road Builders' Association, an $8 billion year will call for the following amounts of basic materials for roadbuilding...
...demands-a guaranteed annual wage, "substantial" wage increases, premium pay for weekend work-and the first session brought out no fireworks. Nevertheless the session made history. Sitting around the table were representatives not only from giant U.S. Steel but from Bethlehem and Republic as well-the Big Three which employ 60% of all steel labor and make 55% of all steel. It was the first time that the steel companies had voluntarily sat down to industry-wide bargaining. Previously they had always talked separately, with U.S. Steel generally setting the pattern which was then followed by the others...
...even a battery of lawyers could make real sense out of the services' present scramble for missile power. For the time being, Charlie Wilson's ruling that any service may develop a missile, without thereby gaining the right to employ it. makes sense. But at best, the ruling is a holding action. It will do little to blow away Wilson's hurricane, or to guarantee that the nation will not be put upon by more service leaks, more public-relations displays, more martyred, parochial officers seeking out spokesmen in Congress or publishers of memoirs. As Ike Eisenhower...
...French colons, whose better land yields nearly half the total crop,*employ more than a million miserably paid Arab hands, many of whom, out of conviction or fear or desperation, collaborate with the rebels. The European farmers can trust no one. Many are discouraged and some are leaving. Good farms can be bought for almost nothing...
...influx began about three years ago because of complementary conditions in the U.S. and Germany. The U.S., unbombed and eating well, produced bumper postwar harvests of singers, but had few opera houses in which to employ them, while Germany had rebuilt its 80 opera houses faster than it could replace their depleted ranks of singers. Americans flocked in, were often hired over Germans of comparable ability simply because of their healthy good-looks. German audiences, with their insatiable hunger for opera (Munich alone puts on more performances in a year than all major U.S. companies combined), showed no resentment...