Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another cause for encouragement is the acting of Burt Lancaster as Starbuck, the rainmaker. Like many another motion picture actor, Lancaster began to learn his trade only after he had won stardom. His talent was evident as long ago as From Here to Eternity, but now his education is complete. The present film proves that he can deliver a long and involved speech, and that he possesses enough technique to outline a character with wit and skill and economy. His is an admirable job of acting...
...bidding for his services. Still far from his prime, Wilt is just too big for most opponents. Ever since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt Chamberlain never achieves his tremendous promise, he will easily earn the trust fund that wealthy Kansas alumni are rumored to have put aside as his graduation present...
...government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced...
WIDER MINIMUM-WAGE coverage is currently No. 1 legislative goal of A.F.L.-C.I.O., will probably be passed by Congress this year. Unions want to extend law to 10 million more Americans (now covered: 24 miliion) to cover most workers for big companies engaged in interstate trade, plus some in retail trade and service, laundry and dry cleaning, communications, taxi business. Next goal: boost minimum wage to $1.25 from $1 an hour...
...TRADE STAMPS are running into trouble in state legislatures. Latest state to try to tax stamps out of existence is Tennessee, where legislature passed 2% gross-receipts tax on stamp-handling stores because small shopkeepers complained of competition. Antistamp laws are in effect in Kansas, Washington, Wisconsin, and restrictive bills are pending in 21 other states...