Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to help you see yourselves as others see you," Romney told 3,000 delegates at a Washington conference of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Trades Department. Then he reeled off the statistics of construction wage settlements which jumped from an average raise of 12.40 per hour in 1962 to 49.60 per hour last year. The unionists cheered wildly. Next the Secretary admonished them to relax apprenticeship restrictions that deny jobs to Negroes. They booed. When he urged building workers to increase their productivity, they booed again. He advised the unionists to end other practices that raise building costs. More boos...
...rate of 12% during March, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled. At the same time, U.S. housing output has fallen seriously behind the nation's needs. Last year the U.S. built just under eight houses and apartments for every 1,000 people compared with 16 per 1,000 during 1950, the peak year. On a per capita basis, U.S. housing output has fallen from world leadership to a level below Western Europe, Japan and Russia...
Widening Gap. Including fringe benefits, the average union construction worker now gets paid $5.91 an hour; in big cities he makes more. Philadelphia carpenters recently won a 23% pay increase, to $6.85 per hour, to be followed by a further 21% raise next year. Omaha roofers will get a 57% increase over the next two years, and Miami laborers will get a 70% boost over three years. The widening gap between wage rates in construction and manufacturing increases the chances of industrial strikes. Last year construction wage settlements were more than 31 times higher than those in oil, trucking...
...increase comes in the same year that tuition is going up $400, raising the total cost of tuition, room and board by 14 per cent--from...
...used to hearing about the influence of levels of expectation on the performance of members of minority groups in our society. The problem there appears usually to begin in the early school grades or even per-school. This is not so for the female majority. Nowadays, girls ensounter little or no discrimination in levels of expectation regarding their academic performance right up through college and even graduate or professional school. Expectation and performance decline only at the point at which women enter the world of jobs and/or professions. There they are not expected to do as well...