Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since their one pay raise in 1951, the G.P.s have averaged only $6,221 a year from N.H.S. (for cruelly long hours, including night calls); most pick up a few hundred more in special fees or by working for industry. Last summer the powerful British Medical Association and its trade-union shadow, the British Medical Guild, decided that something must be done. They drummed up doctors' indignation, presented the government with a demand for a 24% across-the-board increase. Trying to check Britain's wage-price spiral, the government flatly refused...
...manual, not intended for family use, is designed for physicians, first-aid stations, and particularly the 60 poison-antidote centers now being set up across the U.S. In one alphabetical section (more than 800 pages), it lists 15,000 products by their trade names, with the chemical content where the manufacturers are willing to disclose it. There is a wealth of detail on household compounds, the poisons they contain, and the antidotes. Samples...
...Dave Beck affair and its subsidiary scenarios challenge not only the leadership of trade unionism but labor's rank and file to scrutinize their standards anew." The words took a special sting from the newscaster who flung them: Edward P. Morgan, 46, whose nightly 15 minutes on ABC radio (7 p.m., E.S.T.) is sponsored, as his announcer puts it. by "15 million Americans"-the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Along with an outspoken but responsible way of using the freedom given by his sponsor and network, veteran Newsman Morgan combines a pleasant delivery with writing and reporting skill unusual...
Hard-working George Tames, 38, broke into newspaper photography as a 19-yearold copy boy at TIME'S Washington bureau, where he learned to click a shutter by watching LIFE photographers and asking the right questions. He became a full-fledged "head-hunter," as the trade refers to a photographer who specializes in candid head-and-shoulders shots, and joined the Times's Washington staff in 1945. Winner of more than a dozen awards in White House News Photographers' Association contests, shiny-domed Cameraman Tames shares the President's respect for straight, unretouched pictures that tell...
...pack of wolf-whistling periodicals. In all, there are more than 40 playkids on the market, and they are fast outstripping the scandal sheets. The most successful of the upstarts are monthlies, with such names as Caper, Nugget, Rogue, Escapade and Cabaret. Like Playboy ( TIME, Sept. 24), they trade in the smirk, the leer and the female torso-only more so. Latest addition to the wolf pack, out this week, is a Negro monthly called Duke...