Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often work (one-third of Germany's labor force are women), as do children past 16. If salaries sound low, there are also the vital "fringe benefits" provided by the federal government. Steered by the "social free market" philosophy of Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard, the government pumps 40% of its budget revenues into social uses. Every German worker and his family get government-subsidized medical...
...across Colombia (pop. 13.5 million) in eleven years, Minister of Government Guillermo Amaya last week coolly proved that the flow of blood is ebbing. During the first six months of 1958, said Amaya, 3,198 people were slaughtered in backlands violence-an average of 15.2 a day.* In the past six months the death toll shrank to 841, and by March the daily killing average was down to four...
...Francisco, if a compositor works a minute past 6 p.m., he must be paid a premium night rate for his entire daytime shift...
...Past. The 19th and early 20th centuries brought many modernizing attempts; schools of medicine and engineering were added, admission and teaching requirements were set up, class attendance became obligatory. But al-Azhar remained engulfed in the past. As World War II, the Palestine war, and revolution forced Egypt toward the modern era, al-Azhar began to lose its universal respect...
...little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...