Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support he can muster, for his own party is badly fractured over his freeze-squeeze plan. As he rose in the House to deliver his economic message amid Tory cries of "Where is George?," the Deputy Prime Minister and Economics Minister, George Brown, was indeed absent from the Labor front bench. He was in fact back at his office trying to make up his mind whether he should resign from the Cabinet. A strong believer in economic expansion, he saw Wilson's plan as too negative. Its deflationary content clearly meant a sharp rise in unemployment. After the speech...
Wilson's most serious opposition seemed certain to come from the Labor Party's traditional power base, the trade unions. Frank Cousins, the chief of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,500,000 members), who only three weeks ago resigned from the Cabinet in protest against any official restraint on wages, vowed that he would support workers who were due for raises under previously agreed contracts. Other unions pledged to push for higher wages-freeze or no freeze...
...even at the risk of temporarily splitting his party. For if he fails in his present attempt to deflate Britain's inflation-ridden economy, he may soon be confronted with a far tougher alternative: devaluation of the pound. That he wants to avoid. Wilson is aware that the Labor government's devaluation of sterling in 1949 was a major reason for its expulsion from office by British voters two years later...
More often, however, the targets are harder to find. The Viet Cong are masters of camouflage, and the canopy of the jungle that covers much of the land gives them excellent protection against prying cameras. To penetrate the cover, platoons of photo interpreters labor around the clock behind the electrically locked steel door of a special laboratory at Tan Son Nhut comparing pictures of the same minute areas, looking for the subtle changes that spell V.C. They are experts at their work. "I've seen them stretch film right across the room and then count the trees from...
Cumshaw derives from the Chinese kam sia (grateful) and entered U.S. naval argot during the 19th century when ships calling at Canton began swapping rum and ratguards for labor and litchi nuts. Today's scrounger can be an Air Cav supply sergeant or an Air Force crew chief, but Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit...