Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find jobs in their fields. The old dodge of opening up land in Siberia is out, because Russians are no longer willing to toil where schools and housing are poor, wages are low and prices twice what they are elsewhere. The result is not only a dwindling influx of pioneers, but a soaring outflow of migrants: close to 1,000,000 in the past seven years. Most of them go to the Caucasus, where they settle down as "kitchen gardeners"-people who farm their own backyards. More Daring. If they have their way, the followers of Economist Evsei Liberman (TIME...
White extremists demanded revenge; the Deacons replied that they were ready for anything. McKeithen sent in troopers with rifles and submachine guns to set up roadblocks against an influx of additional combatants. The troopers also gave effective protection to both white and Negro demonstrations, except in one case when security broke down and three civil rights workers were beaten. McKeithen ordered his troopers to confiscate every weapon they saw. He readily admitted that he was bending Louisiana law, which permits the carrying of firearms as long as they are unconcealed. Said the Governor: "When the Supreme Court orders...
Inflation, which had not previously been a problem for Saigon, got off to a roaring start this year with the influx of some 32,000 U.S. troops since February -and at least 40,000 more are expected there before summer's end. Free-spending G.I.s have pumped vast new purchasing power into the marketplace, but there has been no comparable increase in consumer goods to absorb the new money. At the same time, stepped-up military construction has drained labor and materials from the civilian economy, further widening the gap between supply and demand. Building workers' wages have...
...only 11 million humans in a land as big as the continental U.S., Australia is rushing to completion $4 billion worth of industrial projects over the next five years. The labor shortage is so severe that in some skilled occupations there are 15 jobs for every applicant. Despite an influx of 1,800,000 immigrants since 1945, and a record 142,000 in the fiscal year that ended last week, Australia, says Labor Minister William McMahon, "is still crying out for more migrants...
...oldest and richest east coast resorts have moved with the times, accepting with greater or less grace an influx of new families, who may or may not have the money the old families had?but then, neither do the old families any longer. In this area, few people stayed?or stay?at hotels. They built their own houses, or rented a native one for the summer, and took the whole family...