Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political Economy, was an "ideal choice" to chair this year's Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty. Dunlop had just finished a term as chairman of the Economics Department, his field--economics--was a large, central one in the University, and his specialty within the field--manpower and labor relations--was relevant to the committee's topic...
...work begins early. Already, members of the Class of 1944 are observing this year's fete to give them ideas for 1969. Gray said that his committee of 150 alumni began serious work just after Labor Day, 1947. From then on, it is nearly a full-time effort to get all the details intricately planned, down to the '43 emblems on the cans of Carling Black Label beer...
...traveler momentarily to his primal, psychic self-all without benefit of hallucinogens? Such was the offer being made last week by Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery. To bring off the most spectacular environmental light show ever staged, the gallery had assembled $400,000 worth of materials and labor in its "Magic Theater," a kind of transistorized tunnel of light designed by eight leading U.S. light, kinetics and environmental artists...
...strike for a 35% increase in pay and fringes, to $8.07 an hour, while striking bricklayers demanded a 42% raise, to $9.02. Despite a decade-old pledge by the AFL-CIO to end make-work practices in construction, union locals are still getting away with restrictions on such labor-saving devices as paint sprayers and power saws and nailers. In Los Angeles, builders who use air compressors pay an operating engineer $5.59 an hour to do nothing but turn the machine...
Both the Defense Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are planning to let substantial contracts to test new technology that may cut building costs by as much as 15%. In Detroit, Contractor H. Fred Campbell persuaded both building inspectors and labor unions to ease some of their rules to help him start a $400,000 project in the largely Negro inner city. Partly by using new techniques, Campbell expects to offer a one-bedroom apartment for $80-a-month rent, well below that of competitive units. In South Bend, Ind., Home Builder Andrew Place has just sold...