Word: labor
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...Truman Analogy. In the confines of the White House, he works as energetically as ever for his policies. He pours out his arguments to a procession of newsmen and Congressmen, plans long-run sessions with leaders of business, labor and farm groups. He has been meeting incessantly with aides, assuring one of them recently. "This Administration hasn't lost...
McNamara estimates that fully half a million North Vietnamese have had to be mobilized to repair bombing damage. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, commander of all Pacific forces, testified before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee's hearings on the air war that the "drawdown on farm labor has reduced food production, and large amounts of food now have to be imported." All told, he said, about half of the North's war-supporting industry has been destroyed or disrupted...
Mills's committee will continue its hearings until the Labor Day recess, then withdraw into executive session to decide whether, politically as well as economically, the time and the season are right for a tax boost. The bill that emerges will probably call for an increase of at most 6%, far less than the President now deems necessary but the very amount that he prescribed in his budget message last January...
...them thought to have come from the top secret files of COSVN (Central Office for South Viet Nam), which is Hanoi's command post for all enemy operations in South Viet Nam. Ranging from requisitions for maternity pay to top-level speeches to a blueprint for creating a Red labor union, the captured papers and photographs?together with recent prisoner and defector interrogations?gave U.S. intelligence a clear and reliable view of the Viet Cong from the inside. They added up to both a history and a handbook on V.C. operations...
Wright and his colleagues are an interesting breed of minister--Negro or otherwise. Like the Catholic priests of Chicago who once engaged in labor-union organizing, these men have mulled over the position of the black poor and American power relations, the complexities of both, and have what can only be described as a "hard-nosed," or "bread-and-butter" approach...