Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees in 1936 (current share: 6½%; of base pay), health insurance in 1941, noncontributory pensions in 1948. P-B has never had a strike, and the last attempt to unionize the company was snowed under 2 to 1 back in 1946. But Pitney-Bowes does have an elaborate parliament of workers, supervisors and brass who meet regularly and publicly discuss everything from the cafeteria's coffee (pretty good) to wages (above average...
Burma. Three months after able General Ne Win took over the premiership and dismissed the Parliament, the capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced...
...alone the index fell 12.7 points). Fortnight ago he banned all imports from Communist China. Few Thailanders seem disturbed by Sarit's end of the parliamentary regime. "Hell," said one Thai recently, "we are saving $750,000 a year in salaries alone. We used to pay members of Parliament that to steal us blind...
...Godthaab, capital of Greenland, and one day last week put to sea again bound for Copenhagen on the homeward leg of her maiden run. On board were 40 crewmen, a cargo of frozen fish, and 55 passengers, including one of Greenland's two Representatives in the Danish Parliament, and six children. Rounding Cape Farewell, the southernmost tip of the island, known as the "worst in the north" for storms, the Hans Hedtoft struggled against the Arctic currents, icy polar winds and mountainous, 20-ft. seas. Next morning at 11:54 the Hans Hedtoft's radio crackled...
Randolph's record as a politician did not inspire confidence in his vote-getting ability; of his seven previous bids for a seat in Parliament, only one was successful -and that was during Britain's World War II political truce. Years ago, contending for Liverpool, he had said: "I don't want to go into Parliament to represent a lot of stuffy old ladies in Bournemouth. I want to fight for really hard-pressed people." Worse yet, though he was originally a staunch supporter of the Suez invasion, Randolph had recently embarrassed the Macmillan government...