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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increases follow close behind wage increases. "Everything else goes up and you're no better off," said one worker. "Wage increases are as useless as fuzz on a frog," said another. Instead of higher wages, says Lubell, many steelworkers would prefer "additional fringe benefits, such as expanded hospitalization, paid-up insurance, and-the one demand with the strongest support-a lower retirement age with more generous pensions...
Soapy Storm. Last February, Soapy Williams started a hold-down on nonessential state expenditures, asked for and got a bail-out of $30 million in taxes paid three months in advance by his old whipping boys, the corporations. In the state legislature. Democrats and Republicans began talking about "the need for compromise.'' But as the weeks went by, 1) the Republicans tried to get a 1% increase in sales taxes, and the Democrats balked; 2) the Democrats tried to hike the debt limit to $50 million, and the Republicans balked. Last week, even though the evenly divided house...
...upon the state's business community, dominated by Chapel Hill alumni. Under the watchful eye of a benign oligarchy (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Duke Power Co. and the "textile aristocracy"), North Carolina has been developed with uncommon imagination. Business leaders have endowed well-paid professorial chairs, set up string-free foundations, protected professors back at the alma mater from the political censorship common to state-supported Southern schools...
...American colonies," joined forces last November, scarcely a month had passed since Guinea cut itself loose from France. To Nkrumah, the union seemed an auspicious first step toward an eventual United States of Africa, and he promised a $28 million loan. Of this sum, $11 million has been paid-half of it just before Nkrumah's arrival. Otherwise, the union has been largely talk. Touré, the junior partner, has been moving off in some alarming directions...
...money. Anybody who says that to my face will find my bloodhounds after him." But what if the International Court of Justice decides that Lots 91 and 92 are Belgian as Sooi claims? "If Holland loses the case," says Burgomaster de Grauw, "it means that inhabitants paid taxes to the wrong country, that some people were never born, and that others died quite illegally. The complications will be enormous: we may end up rewriting the history of the last century. For God's sake, let Holland win, or we'll never solve our problems...