Word: toiler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that time, Saturday Toiler Nordhoff may have some new evidence on which to base his own view. Last week Volkswagen announced that it has bought an assembly plant at New Brunswick, N.J., where Studebaker has turned out J47 turbojet engines. There, Volkswagen will assemble its rear-engine, four-cylinder cars for the U.S. market, where it already has 40% of all foreign-car sales (2,500 a month). In Jersey, Heinz Nordhoff is not likely to find many workers troubled by the emptiness and disconsolateness of a two-day weekend...
...Liberal friend, World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Churchill spoke with such feeling that the House had the impression that he was applying the valediction to himself. "Pity and compassion lent [him] their powerful wings. He knew the terror with which old age threatened the toiler . . . He stood, when at his zenith, without a rival...
...background there was a steady rain of statistics showing that everybody, including business, was infinitely better off than in 1932. "Suppose," Dever cried, "the dinosaurs of political thought came into power! . . . Suppose these rugged individualists abandoned the farmer to the ravages of uncontrolled free enterprise, and the toiler to the mercies of the sweatshop of former days...
Halfway around the world, blonde, blue-eyed Traude Eisenkolb, 19, also found the toiler's glory. She was a stenographer at the Maxhütte Steel Works in Saalfeld, a small industrial town in Germany's Eastern zone, when the Communists launched a drive to bring more young people into the steel industry. What was needed to put the drive across was a little sex appeal. The pressagents searched high & low for the kind of face that would look appealing in the glow of a blast furnace, picked Traude. Forthwith she became a "model" furnace worker, was billed...
...toiler in the mortuary complained that he got less than $45 a week for doing "cosmetics and hairdressing" and had to work day & night. An embalmer at Forest Lawn (where four union members were fired) cried that he not only had to "prepare remains" but wash windows, sweep floors and roll up gauze and excelsior pads for the "cases'" elbows...