Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, in a House Labor subcommittee, a bill to increase the minimum wage from $1.25 to $1.75 an hour by 1968 and to extend coverage to 6.1 million more workers-including farm workers for the first time. President Johnson had recommended only an extension of the $1.25 wage base to some 4.6 million additional workers...
...face of the land is also changing through vast engineering projects like the 425-mile Rajasthan Canal and the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, both being built largely by hand labor. By contrast, Bombay boasts a modern, $55 million atomic power plant. Indian nuclear physicists could easily build an atomic bomb in a year to 18 months, but India has no real military use for it. Still, India may well be forced to develop nuclear weapons if only to recapture international prestige, particularly since Red China has begun exploding atomic devices...
Wilson won the debate as well as months of parliamentary peace as the House of Commons recessed until October. But he gained little else. Labor had pushed through 65 new bills-a near-record number-but most were concerned with the mechanics of ad ministration. Under the first Socialist government since 1951, Socialism had failed to advance an inch...
late Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter once referred to an opinion as "one of the most experienced students of labor...
...served as associate solicitor of the Department of Labor and the principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board...