Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A dispute ever a few cents an hour pay raise or the provision of ice water in freight train cabooses is a matter of momentary concern. The fundamental question is "Where is the dividing line between private rights and public responsibility?". This nation has recognized labor's right to negotiate...
¶ TIME'S thanks to Reader Hickey for the skull-cracking details on a skull-cracking provision of the G.I. Bill.-ED.
There was trouble in Austria too. UNRRA had undertaken to feed all of Austria by April 1, but when the deadline arrived, it turned out that no provision had been made to back up the commitment with sufficient supplies. The U.S. and British zones had enough of their own food...
How much did the 113-day strike cost General Motors Corp.? Last week G.M.'s Alfred P. Sloan Jr. intoned the sad answer: an operating loss of $88.9 million. G.M. figured that $53 million would be offset by tax recoveries from the Federal Government, under the carry-back provision...
Revolutionary departures for a French Bill of Rights were economic guarantees (following the pattern of the Soviet Rus sian Constitution): the right of every citizen to a job, to a livelihood if he is incapacitated and cannot work, to private property acquired "through work and savings." But private property is...