Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three problems of medical care, rights and obligations of organized labor, and school desegregation have been selected for the social studies curriculum at the Concord Junior High School. These studies form the subjects for a "case method" technique of instruction, which, it is hoped, will substantially change a junior high school student's approach to contemporary national issues from simple information-giving recitation to "complex patterns of critical evaluation." The SUPRAD investigators hope to accomplish this by the use of special materials and by "probing-questioning Socratic discussion...
...week to be spent in Cambridge, where M.I.T. will be toured as well as Harvard, the Experiment's group of Russians will live with rural families in upper New York state and will visit Philadelphia, Washington and New York City. In Philadelphia, the emphasis will be an American labor and labor unions, while in the other cities the Soviet students will be chiefly tourists...
Famous as an authority on business and labor relations, he authored the Slichter Law, which empowers the Governor of Massachusetts to step into a strike where the health and welfare of a community are endangered...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Litauer Professor of Political Economy, last night called Professor Slichter "one of the really top economists in the world and probably the leading economist on labor problems in this country." Harris said Slichter was "probably listened to by the average American more than any other living economist...
Enigma with Cutlass. Just before World War II, the rock island of Manacle Shoal in the Caribbean is being tunneled to serve as an unsinkable ammunition ship. The labor force consists entirely of U.S. Negro enlisted men; directing them are three white officers. No one is under any illusion about the overhanging risk: a wrong move, a detonated shell, a rule-breaking smoke-and the whole lot of them could be blown up. Along with the danger come few compensations. For the Negroes, there is an occasional cockfight and beers on a nearby island; for the commander, who is sure...