Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STATION on 100th street is a Clark station. Clark only sells premium gas. But then Dave Rysky always went first class. It is located in a working class Catholic area where Polish fathers like Dave's wake up at six for the day shift in the steel mills, only to swing 3-11 next week and nights the week after; still swinging after twenty-five years on the job. Dave doesn't see his father much. It's a mostly Polish and Eastern European neighborhood of second and third generation, with a few Irish and Italians and a Mexican contingent...
...Russian arrangement in which U.S. goods and technology would be exchanged for huge amounts of Soviet natural gas and other fuels. Last month he signed an agreement with Poland that will grant U.S. Export-Import Bank credits to the country, and is expected in five years to triple U.S.-Polish trade to about $600 million annually. The Poles also agreed to let U.S. companies buy up to 49% of Polish businesses and share in long-term profits. The pact may lead to U.S. trade agreements with other Eastern European countries...
...farm 25 miles outside Warsaw, a ruddy-faced peasant pulled the cork from a home-distilled bottle of honey liquor and talked about the impact of Gierek's agriculture reform, in which a return to a free Western-style market has replaced central planning. One result: Polish farm income has risen 37% in the past year. Though 80% of Polish farm lands are still privately owned, the farmer during the Gomulka regime was a virtual serf to the state, which told him exactly what and how much to raise. Now a farmer is free to grow whatever sells best...
...Last week 1,700 trade union representatives gathered in Warsaw for their first congress in five years; Gierek told them that increased productivity was the only way to continue the upward trend in wages and social benefits. Because of badly organized industries, antiquated equipment and a lack of incentives, Polish workers produce only about one-third as much as their American counterparts. "The state cannot give anything to anyone," Gierek declared. "It can only distribute the goods created by work." If he can persuade the Poles to accept responsibility for their future rather than expect unrealistic results from the state...
...spot in a small-town Pennsylvania production of West Side Story. There he found his first and, so far, only experience of discrimination in the theater. "I wanted to play Riff," he complains, "but they said I couldn't play the part because I wasn't Polish...