Word: laborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states: "I am a miner"-but the tapering, lily-white hand that he so proudly displays in your picture seems to belie the fact that he has ever done a day's manual labor in his life...
Organized as a cooperative like the Associated Press, the L.P.A. elected Rubin Levin of the Railway Brotherhoods' weekly Labor as president, and hired Irving Fagan as editor and general manager. Wiry, able Irv Fagan, a 20-year veteran of the newspaper business (the Philadelphia Record), heads a Washington staff of seven, a national staff of 15 part-time correspondents. The L.P.A.'s top byliner: Old Washington Hand Nathan Robertson (PM). Cost of the service: $2 to $15 a week...
...Under the plan, Reporter Amster will study three days a week at the University of Louisville, work at the Times three more. The newspaper will pay her salary, provide tuition and books. The university will give Betty Lou private instruction on her hand-picked interests (municipal government, anthropology, taxation, labor relations, the Soviet Union...
...Douglas Home; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert and Linnit & Dunfee Ltd. by arrangement with John Krimsky) is one of those comedies that are blatantly British and otherwise quiet as mice. Treating of a titled family that has almost gone broke and an England that has gone Labor, it couldn't be more concerned with politics or less concerned about them...
While all this hoopla was an obvious attempt to highlight the austere handling Eastern gives its passengers, President Baker feels that it is also symbolic of the comeback of his airline. With his labor troubles settled, he has pulled his operating costs per revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but according to CAB, they're still above Eastern. Although National wound up fiscal 1949 last June with a piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation...