Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Call usually comes at about midnight, when the orange growers and their Mexican foremen finally stop hoping and realize they have to light the pots. The growers, of course, hate to call out the smudge crew; one good night of burning pots can cost many thousands of dollars for oil and labor. But when it comes down to a choice of letting the whole grove turn into sawdust-sacks or calling out the crews, the growers send out The Call...
...smudging barn there are knots of unrecognizable figures waddling around and trying to get close to the smudge pot blazing in the center of the room. All the smudgers have to wait until Shorty or Reuben or one of the other foremen reports in that one of the groves has hit 26 degrees. It's always easy for veterans to pick out the novices in the waiting crowds: first-time smudgers stupidly wear clean clothes, not knowing that their whole body surfaces will be coated with a delightful smudge-oil layer by the time they get done. The novices also...
Link with Education. Investigating 6,347 absences and deaths caused by heart disease, Hinkle and his colleagues found that workmen, foremen and clerical employees experienced more heart ailments and coronary deaths than managerial personnel at all age levels. In fact, the incidence of heart ailments decreased on each succeeding higher rung of the executive ladder. Supported by funds from the National Heart Institute, the study also showed that the most rapidly promoted men suffered no more - and usually less - heart dis ease than employees who remained at lower levels. Managers transferred from one Bell System company to another-considered prime...
...hard struggle is still for entry. Promotions are tomorrow's problem."Perhaps - but tomorrows have a way of dawning fast. In Boston last week, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination agreed to hear complaints by eleven Negroes that General Motors had bypassed them and made junior white employees foremen in its Framingham, Mass., Fisher Body plant. In New York, 14 Negro employees accused the Chase Manhattan Bank of discriminating against their advancement to computer training...
TABLE 3 Median Education of Occupation Groups, 1965 and 1985 Estimated White 1965 Nonwhite 1985 Total Occupation Group (yrs.) (yrs.) (yrs.) White-collar workers Professional & technical workers 16.3 16.5 16.3 Managers, officials & proprietors 12.6 11.8 12.6 Clerical 12.5 12.6 12.5 Sales 12.5 12.3 12.5 Blue-collar workers Craftsmen & foremen 11.8 10.4 12.5 Operatives 10.7 10.2 12.0 Laborers, excluding farm & mine 9.9 8.6 11.0 Service workers Private household 8.9 8.9 10.0 Other 11.6 10.4 12.0 Farm workers Farmers & farm managers 8.9 5.9 8.8 Laborers & foremen...