Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some win elections with a confusing complex of support. Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, for example, seems to gather support not only from her CCA endorsement but from some labor groups, women's groups, and "the Jewish vote." And Councillors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 and Edward A. Crane '35, both Harvardtrained lawyers and strong CCA supporters, seem to get much backing from Irish and Italian people who care little for CCA programs. In fact, one of the few factors which seem to have little influence on the election is party affiliation: there is only one registered Republican, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler...
Rising expenses have hit most Ivy League colleges, a CRIMSON poll has shown. With the continually increasing costs of labor and materials, dining hall directors in these colleges all expect increased board charges in the very near future, Carle T. Tucker, director of the Harvard Dining Hall Department, predicted recently...
...doubt in my mind that expenses will continue to rise in the future," the director of dining facilities at the University of Pennsylvania commented, while the General Manager of Food Service at Columbia has stated, "One would be unrealistic not to expect expenses to rise in the near future." Labor expenses are the greatest factor in board hikes...
...were as busy as they could ever want to be. Go-getting Jimmy Carter had been equally busy since April, getting set for them. With Lions Club support, he formed the Plains Development Corp., raised $6,000, bought a site opposite the railroad station and adjoining the drugstore. Town labor cleared it. Carter drew plans to Dr. Sills's sketched outlines. Result: a 30-ft.-by-30-ft. concrete-block building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices for the doctor and his wife, waiting rooms (separate for whites and Negroes), two 10-ft.-by-10-ft. examination...
...Board announced that industrial production dropped one point on the index from August to September, was seven points from the pre-strike high of 155 set in June. Nonfarm employment was holding even at around 52 million, while total unemployment declined to 3,200,000, or 5.6% of the labor force; not counting the 500,000 steel strikers, unemployment had increased only about ½% since the 5% low set in July. Personal income in August dropped only about $2.6 billion from the $381.6 billion peak, and retail sales were only $2 billion down from the $220 billion record rate...