Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rose Grafts and Table Grapes...
...Chavez signed up a group of rose grafters and won a strike vote for higher wages. Everyone pledged not to go to work, but just to make sure that no one did, Chavez and Dolores Huerta, his tiny, tough assistant, made the rounds early on the strike's first morning. Mrs. Huerta saw a light in one house where four of the workers lived. She reminded them of their pledge, but they had changed their minds. Mrs. Huerta moved her truck so that it blocked their driveway and put the key in her purse. The incident illustrated the charge that...
...five years. Denver University's Chan cellor Maurice Mitchell, who expelled 39 sit-in demonstrators last year, recently inspired a torrent of admiring letters-and donations-when he vowed to ignore further student threats. Denver's average alumni gift increased from $30 to $46.77, while overall donations rose...
First, the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in May. That was only half as much as April's advance; and it was the second month in a row that the rate of increase has declined. Next the Commerce Department disclosed that its index of twelve leading indicators of the economy dropped fractionally in May, a sign that overall demand and production may level off in the months ahead and eventually lead to price stability...
...more from America than they sold, but last year they sold $1.1 billion more to the U.S. than they bought (see chart, page 72). That was possibly the biggest trade deficit that the U.S. has ever registered with any nation. Altogether, Japan's exports in 1968 rose by 25%, and its shipments to the U.S. accounted for more than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million...