Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Splendor, of course, was never built. Hitler perished in the ruins of old Berlin. But Albert Speer, who was later promoted to Minister in charge of all German war industry, survived to stand trial at Nürnberg and spent 20 years in Spandau prison for using slave labor. He completed his term in 1966 and returned to his home, Castle Wolfsbrunnenweg, on a hill above the Neckar River in Heidelberg. Speer was 28 when he became Hitler's architect, 36 when he was appointed Munitions Minister, 41 when he entered Spandau. Today he is a white-haired...
...Progressive Labor wing of SDS is turning away from on-campus, student-oriented issues like ROTC and coming to the aid, instead, of oppressed minority groups in the surrounding community. At Michigan, Berkeley and Wisconsin, other radical students and teaching assistants are organizing rent strikes over what they consider to be substandard and overpriced off-campus housing. Efforts such as these could wash back on the universities themselves...
Nixon's men themselves seem increasingly unsure about whether their policy is working. Labor Secretary George Shultz said last week that if price rises do not slow markedly in another three or four months, the Administration may have to curb credit and spending still more. The President moved in that direction at week's end by ordering a 75% slash in federal spending on Government office buildings, rivers and harbors and flood-control projects...
Economists have no firmer grasp of many potentially critical labor trends. They cannot gauge the severity of the labor shortages that are raising production costs by forcing businessmen to rely on untrained and inefficient workers. The Government collects no figures on job vacancies to match against its thorough reports on the number of workers unemployed. More surprising, no one really knows how rapidly wage costs are rising this year. The Government currently tallies only wage-and-benefit gains in union contracts covering 5,000 or more workers, and these contracts affect only 10% of the U.S. Labor force. Fuller wage...
...that the government would set an example of restraint. The 1969 deficit will be cut from $1.26 billion to $722 million, he vowed. Planned price increases by government-run gas and electricity utilities will be canceled. Military conscripts will be released a month early to swell the ranks of labor. And for the long term, the Finance Minister relayed a pledge from Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas: so long as he is in office, government spending will rise no faster than the gross national product...