Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union Leader Cesar Chavez's celebrated huelga (strike) by California grape pickers, the growers are anxious for federal regulation of union activity in agriculture. Farm workers have always been excluded from coverage by federal labor-relations law. One reason is that farmers are terrified of strikes at harvest time, which would be ruinous. Another rationale for exclusion has been that agricultural employment is so seasonal and transient that farm .workers were not even covered by minimum wage legislation until...
...picketing and harvesttime strikes. Not until 1947, twelve years after the NLRB was established, did the Taft-Hartley Act outlaw secondary boycotts and organizational picketing for industrial plants and products. The Shultz plan would extend those prohibitions to agriculture. While the Administration plan would not flatly forbid strikes at harvest time, it would allow a 30-day cooling-off period that an employer could invoke whenever he needed workers in the fields. The law, while excluding small farms, would cover about 45% of U.S. farm employees -perhaps...
That has been Barry Jr.'s way ever since he graduated from Arizona State University in 1962 with a major in business administration and a harvest of wild oats. "He was a bright kid," recalls one professor. "But it would be asking too much of the boy to be a serious student when he had his father's name and those same good looks. And the girls were crazy about...
...grow by more than 300,000 tons annually. In Italy, landowners have been forced to destroy crops of fruit and vegetables, and officials at the Ministry of Agriculture are fretting over what to do with 150,000 tons of ripening surplus oranges, more than 10% of the annual harvest...
...Concorde and the Soviet SSTs.* Thus for reasons of prestige, employment, technology and high finance (an estimated $12 billion market over the next eight years), the U.S. still seems likely to build an SST. The Concorde, for which airlines have taken 74 "options," will probably reap the first harvest, because it is scheduled to be in service by 1971. Unless Nixon has an unanticipated change of heart, a fair bet is that the U.S. SST will be airborne...