Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hole. Last week the strikers got a new wage offer from the sugar planters. Its essence: 1) abandonment of the perquisites system in favor of a set of fixed charges for rents, medical treatment, etc.; 2) an hourly wage increase...
Choice sirloin and T-bone steaks cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...
Their style is a draggy, lush melodic line trimmed with Elliot's piano solos. For sugar-spinning, the band has a symphonic wind section (bassoon, oboe, French horn, English horn and clarinet) which Elliot calls a Woodwindtette. Says he: "We're trying to get more classical sounds. That way we get a sort of purple mood. Overseas the kids loved wild razzmatazz. But now they're back, they want sweet music. They just want to put their arm around their gal friend and romance slowly. Let's not kid ourselves, that's why they like...
...founders of the Ford Motor Co., told them how they could get it: work on an incentive wage plan. Said the U.A.W., which hates such plans: no go. After much haggling, both sides compromised. The U.A.W. got its 18½? raise; it also got an incentive plan with a sugar-coated name: Cost Savings Sharing Plan. Bundy got around the union's deep-seated objections to incentive plans, which it feels are only a euphemism for the hated speed-up and the pitting of one worker against another, by agreeing to pay incentive bonuses on the basis of total...
...bright feature of No Leave, No Love: a too-brief specialty act by Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson. This remarkable, seven-year-old, 50-lb. Negro prodigy sings and plays boogie-woogie piano with his soul, eyes, fingers, fists and elbows...