Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wage settlements was set by the steelmakers. The steelworkers asked for a package totaling some 50? an hour a worker (TIME. May 31), settled for 9? to 12? (including 5? in wages). Last week smaller steel fabricators were settling along the same lines with the union, and in some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with Goodyear after a 53-day strike, and with...
...happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded dressing gowns are readier with a pound of flesh than a $5 payment. Industrious Dan cannot remain stony before genuine hardship, eventually decides he has had enough of the "easy payment" world. Author Doyle, a credit manager in his nonwriting hours, writes like a man who knows his subject even when he does not know quite what to do with...
...Senate Finance Committee voted to extend social-security benefits to clergymen on a voluntary basis. They would have two years in which to elect coverage. The committee voted against coverage for professional groups such as doctors and lawyers but considered the clergy a special "hardship" case...
Good Customer. U.S. watch companies that have already become heavy importers of Swiss watch movements (e.g., Bulova, Gruen) had ex-Senator Millard Tydings to argue their case. Tydings ripped into the U.S. watchmakers' hardship story. He cited the fact that Hamilton's sales had jumped from...
...Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...