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...plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party planners raced to outdo each other with new gimmicks or old variations on the Soviet Stakhanovite system: P. Bykov's "rapid-lathe-operators' movement...
...task of hunting a man to succeed Gordon Dean, retiring chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, was turned over to Lewis Strauss last March. Strauss, the President's unpaid personal adviser on atomic energy matters, lined up half a dozen prospects, but all of them backed away from the appalling job. Last week the AEC finally got a new chairman chosen by Dwight Eisenhower himself. Ike's choice: Lewis Strauss...
...same time, the commission recommended immediate establishment of an unpaid state board of Educational Television by the Legislature; the group would consist of the nine members of the State Board of Education plus four others named by the governor with the approval of the Executive Committee...
Events of the week include the "Senior Spread," other informal dances, a moon-light cruise, and the usual unpaid-for activities, such as Class Day itself. For all of them, the Class Day Committee is responsible...
...contracts] until you put into them guaranteed annual wages for the workers in our basic industries.' " Reuther announced that he had persuaded ten top economists and industrial relations experts (e.g., Harvard's Economists Seymour Harris and Alvin H. Hansen, Wisconsin's Edwin Witte) to serve as unpaid advisers to help smooth out the specific details of workable annual-wage plans...