Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fuel, feed and arm the Allied fighting machine, some 6,000 tons of war materiel must be funneled daily through the port of Saigon. The labor is usually done by Vietnamese stevedores; the men of the U.S. Army's 4th Transportation Command seldom lift anything heavier than a clipboard as they direct the flow of goods. But last week the Saigon Dock Workers Union went out on strike. To keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels...
Letters from an Axman. The Mountbatten investigation was ordered when the Labor government came under at tack after the escape of Soviet Spy George Blake in October. Britain's Victorian prisons were not built for the liberal policies that today allow the inmates wide freedoms. "Most prisoners," said the report, "are kept in buildings that were constructed in the 19th century when, in effect, imprisonment was solitary confinement and all security depended on this fact...
...reality of inflation. For years, West Germany's unchecked economic boom resulted in a spending spree on the part of consumers and government that kept prices moving steeply upward. To make sure that it could keep pace with demand, German industry hoarded workers, thus aggravating the already acute labor shortage...
Such measures were effective-although the result raises a bitterly disputed question as to whether they were for better or worse. By last summer, the domestic money market had so dried up that German businessmen advertised futilely in the London Financial Times for investment capital. Squeezed by rising labor costs and tight money, industry has pulled in the reins. The Krupp complex has a six-month supply of unsold trucks, may have to put 1,500 workers on reduced shifts. Volkswagen, with 84% of recent sales in overseas markets because of a severe drop in domestic demand...
...been reduced to making meaningless and sometimes embarrassing noises in public. Last week Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor predicted an expanding economy, but the only cliché he dared use to buttress his faith was that the Government would continue "a sound mix of fiscal and monetary policies." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, attacking reports of a "credibility gap" in the Administration, questioned the credibility of the press in reporting budgetary news-of which there has been precious little...