Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no longer much fear that more U.S. troops would send the fragile South Vietnamese economy into an unmanageable inflationary spiral. Meanwhile the big U.S. construction projects, with their heavy demands on local labor and materials, have been leveling off. Storage facilities and a runway have been completed at Cam Ranh Bay, for example, and new docks have been put into operation along the Saigon River near the capital, ending what was once a serious logistic logjam...
...committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted in 1958 as a code for the entire federal establishment is little more than an inside joke. One of the toothless injunctions requires "a full day's labor for a full...
...University contended that it could not arbitrarily recognize any one union over the other. It insisted on an election conducted by the Massachusetts State Labor Relations Board as the means of determining the proper representative...
That the Traveler, an afternoon paper published by the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, was not robust or highly profitable was common knowledge in Boston and its death was accepted as inevitable. But no one, not even high-ranking staffers or the usually knowledgeable labor unions, expected the Traveler to go when it did or in the quiet way it did. Most newspeople anticipated that the Traveler's death would be the result of a deal made by the publishers of all the Boston dailies, a deal that would also mean the end of some of the others papers; or that...
...Traveler could never out-Hearst Hearst's BostonRecord-American, nor could it ever be as chatty and informal (and theTraveler tried this too) as the Taylor Family's Boston Globe. Unable to find a secure niche for itself in Boston, and plagued by rising production costs and labor difficulties, the Traveler, it would seem, was obviously ready to die. Nevertheless, its own staffers, other newsmen, and the labor unions expected plenty of notice, through a long and loud death rattle, instead of a sudden...