Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor is the largest organized politi cal pressure group in the U.S., but it is neither happy nor effective as it ap proaches 1967. The 90th Congress shows every sign of being the first Congress in many years from which labor has no hope of winning any prolabor legislation at all. Several major strikes in 1966 that greatly inconvenienced the public - including the airline and New York transit strikes - have given labor a tarnished image, and its fracturing of the economic guidelines has not exactly made it popular in Washington. Finally, the U.S. labor movement has fallen to quarreling within...
...Burns, who was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser. "If the purpose of a tax increase is to cool off the economy, such a process is already under way without it," he told a bankers' conference in New York. "With the scope of economic expansion narrowing, with labor costs rising, with profit margins shrinking, with construction costs high and running well above investors' estimates, with the stimulus of the investment tax credit suspended, with the stock market weak, with uncertainty about taxes widespread, and with the business and investing mood gradually becoming less exuberant, powerful additional forces...
...session. But Powell was recently held in criminal contempt as well as civil contempt, and State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich last week issued an order for his arrest on "any day"-including Sundays and days when Congress is meeting. The chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee was an outlaw in his own state...
...hauls around two 35-lb, timpani and beats the big bass drum for the San Francisco Symphony. While most married symphony women practice the "offbeat rhythm method"-that is, plan their babies for delivery during the off-season-Peggy merrily pounds away on her drum practically right into the labor room. Before her last delivery, the boys in the band room were betting that the baby would be born with its hands clapped over its ears...
...essays from Author Edgar Snow, German Journalist Harry Hamm and Professor Emil Egli, is about as close as most Americans will get to China this year. The photos, like China itself, seem timeless: men and women straining to haul boats upriver against a driving current, bent-backed peasants at labor in the fields, students planting trees, Mongolian horsemen racing across the steppe. And everywhere, plump wide-eyed children...