Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the over 50 per cent unemployment rate among black workers during the Depression, 400 black women in the Richmond tobacco industry went on strike against their $3-a-week wages and miserable working conditions. Within 48 hours the strikers obtained wage increases, a 40-hour week and union recognition. The women had been considered unorganizable before they walked...
...last major industries to become automated, is making up for lost decades. Since the 1960s, most major dailies have begun computerizing their composing rooms and even their newsrooms, where the video display terminal is fast replacing the typewriter. The attendant productivity increases have been prodigious. The Richmond Times-Dispatch, for example, can now set type for a page of classified ads in 90 seconds, up from four hours in 1972. Savings: $1.2 million a year...
...their shaky economies, however, Brazil and other coffee-producing nations have increased export taxes on beans and reaped windfalls. Brazil's tax per pound has jumped from 22? to 75? Colombia, the second largest producer, now demands $1.47 per pound in taxes. Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Frederick W. Richmond, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, charges that "this is a crisis dreamed up by coffee-exporting nations to gouge the American consumer...
...Michael K. Savit? Well, he's a multi-talented and witty writer for the Harvard Crimson. Unfortunately, like many of today's athletes, he's been reading too much of his own press. After all, he's certainly not Red Smith of the New York Times, or even Milton Richmond of UPI. He's only an undergraduate writer working for a college paper. He shouldn't degrade or ridicule any of the school's athletic teams, and should be especially polite when discussing ones he hasn't even seen compete...
...FORD: In the East, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Herald American, Baltimore News American, Baltimore Sun, Providence Journal, Providence Bulletin, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Times-Union, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. In the South, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Nashville Banner, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Times Herald. In the Midwest, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, Tulsa (Okla.) World, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the West, Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal. San Diego Union. Portland's Oregonian...