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...year of hardening labor negotiations, are further symptoms of the current predicament of organized labor (TIME, Jan. 25). Union-shop agreements now cover 74% of all U.S. workers covered by collective bargaining agreements, but the number of hourly workers eligible to belong to such unions is being shrunk by what labor experts call "erosion of the bargaining unit." In some industries, notably aerospace, hourly workers are soon upgraded to salaried workers; in others, they are being automated out of jobs. The number of hourly workers in auto plants has dropped from 82.9% of all employees in 1948 to nearly...
...last week more than 50 of Mali's 250 most important foreign enterprises, mostly French, had pulled out. The trade deficit stood at $26 million and reserves had shrunk to a minuscule $5,000,000. In Paris the French listened with almost saintly patience to Mali's pleas for a massive bail-out loan; when all is said and done, France is expected to come across with the cash. As an exporter of peanuts and beef (its cattle are north of Africa's tsetse fly zone), self-sufficient in rice and other staples, Mali just might make...
...China's masses last week had much in common with the subjects of the famous fairy-tale emperor: everybody was talking about new clothes, but nobody could actually see them. After three years of bad cotton crops, the annual cloth ration has shrunk to as little as 2½ ft. per person in some regions-"just enough," said one refugee, "to patch our rags." So severe is the shortage, according to the official Peking People's Daily, that "clothes hospitals" are making "short-sleeved shirts out of long-sleeved shirts, a vest out of a short-sleeved shirt...
...Motors. They kicked again last week in Washington, and with new fury. Unless G.M.A.C. is quickly curbed, complained Richard Meier, chair man of the A.F.C. executive committee, there may soon be no "independents" left. In the past five years, says Meier, the number of independent auto finance companies has shrunk from...
...Best." The slogan, along with sturdy lines of men's underwear and saucy injunctions such as "Now, Now Cool Off-Get Your B.V.D.s On!", made B.V.D.* an American byword and a titan of the trade. But by World War II, overextension, inefficient mills and changed buying habits had shrunk the onetime giant. Now, under different ownership, B.V.D. is headed up again. Since 1957 its plants have quadrupled to 16, and its sales have risen 52% to last year's $17.7 million. Bolstered by some recent corporate acquisitions, sales this year are running double the 1961 rate. Earnings...