Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MIAMI. Condominiums dominate the entire metropolitan housing spectrum. Working-class families as well as the city's large community of Cuban expatriate businessmen and tradesmen are eager buyers of condominiums, which five years ago appealed most strongly to middle-class retirees seeking Florida's sun. Even the palm-draped skyline of stately Key Biscayne, site of President Nixon's Florida White House, is being reshaped by high-rise condominiums. Most recent addition is a group of six twelve-story high-rises on the beach...
...promise that, in the long run, the change would increase their earnings and lighten their work load. Instead it deprived them of reward for their increased productivity, and their income declined from $17 to $19 a day in 1954 to about $13 today. In relation to other basic tradesmen in Britain, the miners dropped from third place in wages to twelfth in ten years. Ever since the Heath government came to power two years ago, the miners' wages have not kept up with increases in taxes, rents and social service contributions-let alone the rising cost of food...
...button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer to your thinking than all of the other candidates. I'm the different candidate." The sponge fishermen, tradesmen, retired couples and the rest of the audience stood up and cheered...
...created in scholarly biography, Ford's breakdowns, his fibbing, his colossal self-pity seem sad, messy, asinine and above all repetitive. He viewed publishers as "tradesmen" and quarreled with them endlessly. Ford was fond of women and attractive to them, in part because he shared with his hero Tietjens the view that you seduce "a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her." Yet one feels he fully deserved Violet Hunt, the intellectual succubus for whom he broke up his first marriage in 1909 and who became the model for one of fiction...
Last year labor settlements gave union construction workers an average wage raise of 18.3%, more than double the 8.1% increase in manufacturing. The real gap was even larger because construction pay was already inflated far above the national average. Building tradesmen won pay and fringe-benefit rises averaging 90.4? an hour, compared with 24.3? for workers in other industries. Many settlements will virtually double construction wages over the next three years. For example, hourly pay for Wichita operating engineers will go up from $5.40 to $10.50: Hartford, Conn., electricians, from $6.75 to $12.50; for Los Angeles sheet-metal workers, from...