Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit architect before the draft caught him, was fairly hacking the daylights out of the spuds, so his mess sergeant reported him for goofing off. Sent up before Captain Thomas Woods, his commanding officer, for disciplinary action, Pfc. God refused a company-punishment sentence of two hours of hard labor every day for 14 days, demanded a summary court-martial, as was his right-even in such absurd cases as this-under the new (1951) Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...only trying to settle 5,000,000 Chinese in Tibet, nearly double the native population; they were even trying to declare "the Lord Buddha a reactionary element." Today, said the Dalai Lama, there are only three classes of Tibetans: those deported, those in prison, and those doing forced labor...
...Commerce Department reported that personal income rose to a record annual rate of $376.2 billion in May, $3 billion above the month before. The Labor Department added that spendable earnings (income after federal taxes) also reached a record in May of $81.03 a week for a factory worker with three dependents. The department also reported a May rise of 0.1% in the consumer price index to a record 124% of the 1947-49 price average. But Bureau Price Chief H. E. Riley said that the change was an expected seasonal rise that has taken place every year but one since...
...goods (of which the U.S. has more than any other nation), but the U.S.'s large and growing investment in education, science and technology. Russia's rapid industrial growth is a factor that must be reckoned with, concludes the report, but so must two other facts: Soviet labor drained into industry leaves other sectors of Russia's economy weakened and. since Russian manpower has its limits, "has even more important implications for the future rate of Russia's industrial growth...
...clear the fog of conflicting claims surrounding the steel negotiations, President Eisenhower last week considered having the Government prepare its own "impartial" statistics for the public's guidance. But the Labor Department and other Government agencies quickly let it be known that they wanted no part of the job. Reason: they know that even statistics on such an apparently simple factor as productivity are open to wide interpretation. No matter what figures the Government settled on, federal economists feel, they would favor one side or the other, add heat rather than light to the debate between management and labor...