Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their official statement of policy says: "The Young Employers reject all notion of privilege, class or caste . . . They do not consider militant unionists as enemies . . . The right of the man who will and can work to obtain by his labor the means to support himself and his family is absolute . . . The idea cannot be to give all men the same start, because nature has given them unequal physical, moral and intellectual gifts . . . The real ideal is to give everyone a chance . . . The real goal to pursue is that . . . all workers should have the opportunity of becoming capitalists . . . An atmosphere must...
...Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes...
...women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much room, but the workers never got in each other's way. Said the capitaliste éclairé, "It is all a matter of going to the right place at the right speed at the right time...
...experts had called for a total clearance of 3,210,000 acres of jungle by 1952, at an estimated cost of ?23,975,000 ($67,130,000). Production targets were set at 56,920 tons for 1948, and 277,676 tons for 1949. The ?23 million was spent, all right, but the return added up to peanuts. Only 49,620 acres were planted, which yielded a miserable 2,150 tons of groundnuts and 800 tons of sunflower seeds (planted in rotation with the nuts...
...Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...