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There was also little question but that a grateful Administration would look on labor's new demands with a kindly eye. Leaving the A.F.L. convention in Cincinnati, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin reminded newsmen that wages of some 16 million workers were now trailing 9% behind the Bureau of Labor Statistics' figures on the cost of living. Labor, he implied, could count on his help to close...
...nation's 95 million eligible voters, only 50% went to the polls on Election Day. Comparable figures from elections abroad: Britain, 73%; Italy, 92%; France, over...
...Forty Million Frenchmen. These were arrogant, offensive and injurious words. The point, however, was that Charles de Gaulle spoke for virtually 40 million Frenchmen. Not since the war had there been such a unanimous upsurge of French resentment-from extreme left to extreme right-against the U.S. and Britain...
...multiplication. Since 1899, Puerto Rico's population (now 2,200,000) has more than doubled. At present rates, it will rise another 36% by 1965. The island's sugar-based economy gives it an increasingly unfavorable trade balance with the U.S. (last year's: $140 million). U.S. expenditures for relief and public works have made Puerto Rico a vast and continuing WPA project...
During his eight years in power, Muñoz has built the world's largest tax-financed project of individual houses (TIME, Aug. 23), started an $11 million hospital program, raised the percentage of the island's children in school from 49 to 58. But his chief tool for improvement is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. Under the driving management of 38-year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power...