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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour after the day shift comes on to relieve the nighttime guards. That morning there were no guards to pass it out. In a fine display of solidarity, backed by the nation's three main labor federations, the guards at Sante had decided to go on strike for higher...
...Eastern Europe. Specialists gave two explanations. The World Health Organization's Dr. Anthony M.M. Payne argued that the increase is apparent, not real, and the result of better diagnosis. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk offered the second explanation. "This is a disease of civilization." he said. "As countries adopt higher standards of public hygiene and sanitation, and infant mortality decreases, you get a greater number of children with no natural immunity against the disease." This probably explained recent polio flare-ups in parts of southern Europe and among upper-crust populations in South America. Soviet delegates reported that this...
...quarter operating revenues totaled $1.6 billion, with a net income of $208.5 million, both about 10% better than last year and both new records for the quarter. Parent A.T.&.T.'s net alone climbed to a record $167.9 million v. $153.2 million in 1956, might soon be even higher. Said Kappel: "At present, the rate of earnings on the capital invested in the Bell System is 6.8%. We are convinced that the rate should be higher, and are working to that...
Cleveland industrialists conducted a survey, found that half of the city's employers frowned on moonlighting. They pointed out that moonlighters had a higher rate of absenteeism, lower productivity. In many cities, operators of unionized companies complain because their men insist on time and a half for overtime, or double time on Sundays, but will cheerfully work in back-alley, nonunionized shops for less than scale...
Fire Down Below (Warwick; Columbia) rises high and could have soared higher but for a curious fact: its proper beginning seems uncomfortably wedged in its middle. Two of the three principals disappear in the midst of the story for half an hour of screen time. The curious result is a fast-paced adventure yarn laced around a taut interlude of high drama...