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Some of the cries against foreign competition are louder than the pinch warrants. Only 52,600 men's suits were imported into the U.S. in 1960, v. some 20 million turned out by U.S. factories. Imports in 1960 of wool pants totaled 2.1 million v. 14.2 million made in the U.S. Moreover, from October 1958 to October 1960, the number of production workers employed in the U.S. coat and suit industry increased from 94,000 to 102,900 despite rising imports, and the workers' average weekly hours worked and total earnings increased as well. Though imports of Japanese...
...rarely meet except at the bargaining table, got together in Washington at the urging of United Steelworkers President David McDonald to discuss ways "to get idle steelmaking facilities and idle steelworkers back to work." The two sides came to no agreement. Railroad freight carloadings, continuing to feel the pinch in steel, were down 13.2% in the last reported week, and shippers predicted that they will fall 5.1% in the first quarter below the year-ago level...
...pinch would be felt by all classes, the Premier insisted, but the opposition Socialists rose with angry shouts when Eyskens proposed a legislative catchall called the Lot Unique (single law). Labeling it the Loi Cynique, they insisted its tax provisions (e.g., a 20% boost in sales tax as well as income tax increases) would hit workers hardest, argued that its cuts in health and unemployment programs (which, some Socialists admit privately, are outrageously featherbedded) were "a step 25 years back into the past." "Not True, Not True." When the bill came up for debate on the floor of Parliament just...
...guidance could be given either individually or in small sections. Following the plan of the Freshman Seminars, these programs would not be given within departments, but would be free to cross department lines if necessary. Sophomores with interests in either humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences, who feel the pinch of course restrictions would thus have some practical means of supplementing their lecture and classroom work with a supervised plan of independent study. Phillip G. Schrag...
Softened Attitude. Top hospitals like New York's Bellevue which has about 100 foreign physicians, can choose the most promising foreign medical school graduates, who have less difficulty getting past the examination hurdle. The pinch comes in hospitals that have no affiliation with a medical school, need A.M.A.A.H.A. accreditation to attract good U.S. graduates. Six of the twelve foreign-trained doctors in Rhode Island's State Hospital for Mental Diseases flunked the exams, and one New York City hospital faces loss of a quarter of its house staff...