Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry-hungry South, the federal $1-an-hour minimum-wage law protects workers in the big new plants shipping goods in interstate commerce, but Deep Dixie has massively resisted state minimum-wage laws to cover local industry and retail businesses fattened by the new payrolls. Last week progressive North Carolina (TIME, May 4) broke the Deep South line with a 75?-an-hour minimum that assured prompt raises for 55,000 low-paid Tarheels...
...Chinese. When he took power in 1895 on the death of his father, the Sultan shifted the economy from opium and gambling to rubber. With other Malay states, Johore now produces one-third of the world's natural rubber. He angrily opposed self-rule for Malaya, outraged local nationalists by snapping: "It is all very well to clamor for independence, but where are your warships, your planes and your army to withstand aggression from the outside...
...years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...
...turn our cameras over to two local trade union workers who in turn give us white robes, and we follow after the rapidly moving Ted Spear...
...whose avarice is never really very convincing, staring wistfully at the bodies of $100 rats. If he has learned anything much, it is that one good way to kill rats is to feed them gold leaf. (Incidentally, there's lots of gold leaf available in Adams House, if any local, aspiring $100 rats are interested...