Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commerce (1903), Labor (1913), Health, Education and Welfare (1953), making a total of ten. Defense (1947) simply merged the old War and Navy Departments...
...SPECIAL COURTS-MARTIAL nearly always deal with enlisted men, have a president (senior officer present), a trial counsel (prosecutor) and defense counsel. Neither counsel need be a lawyer, but if the former is, the latter must be. Maximum penalties upon conviction: six months' confinement at hard labor and a bad-conduct discharge, which is theoretically less serious than a dishonorable discharge...
...most favorable indication of all was the statistic on teenagers, the center of the unemployment problem. Contrary to all expectations, the proportion of idle teen-agers fell from 14.1% in June to 13.2% in July. More than 1,600,000 of them found jobs, 50% more than the Labor Department expected, during the normal seasonal rise that brings thousands of them into supermarkets, playgrounds, offices and summer resorts...
...Government. It maintains expensive U.S. vessels on essential world routes by providing a $200 million annual subsidy, pays 72? of every dollar in most seamen's wages. Because some of the largest U.S. ship lines are among the strikebound (U.S. Lines, Moore-McCormack, Grace, Farrell), Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz at first took personal charge at bargaining sessions; he was so frustrated by the gap between the two sides that he was reduced to table pounding...
...publisher's idea was for Algren to write a meandering essay on Hemingway while taking a freighter trip to Asia, and for him to pad it out with descriptions of Oriental ports. "An essay on Ernest Hemingway was a labor to which I felt compelled," explains Algren. "Everyone else was acting so compulsively, I had to do something compulsive, too, or I wouldn't get invited to any more parties...