Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repressed. For all the billikheid, in fact, Vorster's regime is pressing for early passage of two new bills aimed at the so-called "Colored" (mulatto) population, which once enjoyed almost equal privileges with the whites. The bill would empower the government to draft Colored youths into a labor corps in which they could be subjected to "the performance of any kind of work." The bill would also automatically deny white status to anyone, even blue-eyed blondes, unable to prove that both parents were bona fide whites...
...lagged a year behind Boeing's profit-laden 707?and Douglas has yet to break even on the venture. After Donald Jr., now 49, took over the presidency, the company grossly underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each DC-9 it delivered last year, ended 1966 some $27 million in the red. That process nearly exhausted the patience of the eight banks that were providing it with operating funds. They cut off Douglas...
Profit Squeeze. McDonnell is an unmistakable phenomenon in a fast-changing industry that is suffering a good deal of anxiety about its future. The U.S. guns-and-butter economy lifted aerospace sales by 15% last year to a record $23.8 billion. But Viet Nam-caused labor shortages and material bottlenecks boosted costs enough to squeeze profit margins down to 3% of sales compared with 5.6% for all U.S. manufacturers...
...building headquarters and plant. There are no frills amid the tangle of boxlike brick offices, glass-clad research laboratories and steel-walled hangars. Scientists experiment with laser beams and gamma rays in basement rooms so jammed with costly equipment that it is difficult to walk about. Executives often labor in windowless cubbyholes. But there are no audible complaints. McDonnell spends weeks and months scouting out able men, screens them with such painstaking care that he is rarely forced to fire anybody. Though he delves into everything from the wording of a minor press release to the price of three-ring...
...great novels of the century, he consciously employed the techniques of cinema: long shot, closeup, flashback, dissolve, montage. The cinematic character of the novel was excitedly recognized by moviemakers, and down the years some of the best-among them Sergei Eisenstein and John Huston-have unsuccessfully undertaken the prodigious labor of getting Ulysses off the page and onto the screen...