Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prices & Featherbeds. In the U.S. economy, labor productivity has hardly increased at all over the past two years. The No. 1 task of organized labor in the year ahead is not to use monopoly power to force wages up but to join in promoting the increased productivity that makes possible higher wages without higher prices. The need for increased productivity is nowhere more obvious than in Richard Gray's featherbedding building trades, which deliberately hold back output per man-hour through restrictive rules; e.g., painters must use brushes, not sprayers...
...would contribute to the fund the sums that European countries repay on their Marshall Plan loans; European countries would kick in amounts equal to 20% of their repayments to the U.S. Estimated total available: $100 million a year. In addition, private capital would be encouraged to join in. To manage the fund, the Italians suggested a nine-man international board to be chaired by a representative from...
...addition to alleviating the Princeton housing shortage, the new buildings will provide alternative facilities for students who do not desire to join eating clubs. In the future, students who do not join the clubs will be able to live and eat together...
...that the Vanguard project was a minor experiment to be conducted solely by the Navy. The Army's efforts, he continued, must be reserved for the IRBM, the Jupiter C. Shortly, if not immediately afterward, the Secretary of Defense announced that the Army and its Jupiter C rocket would join project Vanguard. In another reversal or at least confusion of policies, the Navy and presumably the Administration gave yesterday's launching all possible publicity, while previous experiments of this nature had little if any such coverage. Had the administrators been in contact with the scientists, or even the Martin Aircraft...
...firing is successful, the United States will have met Nikita Khrushchev's challenge to the free world to join Russia in forming a "commonwealth of Sputniks...