Word: reale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northeastern ports had signed a truce agreement with the New York Shipping Association to extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry cranes, and huge container vans with detachable wheels and chassis...
Nikita Khrushchev flew on, and in the capitals of the world, diplomats settled down to the business of piecing together the results, real and implied, of his U.S. trip...
...transformation of the Wall Street Journal from a Depression echo of Wall Street to the fastest-moving daily in the U.S. Since 1940, circulation has grown 19-fold, from 32,000 to 625,000, ranking the Journal among the top ten U.S. dailies. The country's only real contender for the title of national daily, the Journal is printed simultaneously in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Dallas; beginning next year it will be printed near Springfield, Mass., and in Cleveland as well. Its 286 fulltime editorial staffers are scattered through 20 U.S. news bureaus, three in Canada...
...solid evidence in its 57-page report that the segregated Negro and Puerto Rican children are as much as three years behind in their studies because of sagging morale and poorly qualified teachers. Equally discouraging is the ironic fact that New York is the only Northern city with a real blueprint for solving de facto segregation...
...seems foolish to station six or seven people earning $1.30 per hour or more, behind a counter to dish out food when three could do an adequate job. An automatic milk dispenser would serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...