Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five months ago, union leaders in three major industries, one after another, demanded a 10% wage increase for their men. Fortnight ago, to back up their demand. 210,000 shipyard workers walked out of Britain's 70 yards, which have enough orders on the books to keep booming through 1961. Six days later, the 2,750,000 members of Britain's "engineering" unions began a "snowball strike," or progressive walkout, which by April 6 was scheduled to close down 4,300 factories producing everything from textile looms to bombers. In the background, muttering ominously, were...
...people who read confession magazines, says Macfadden Publications, are "Wage-Town" folks. More than 80% of readers are women, mostly married and in the 25-30 age group. Slightly more than 50% finished high school. Their income levels are below-average. Thus, the confession slicks never indulge in drawn-out, complex psychological unravelings or high-flown dialogue...
...Ring of Truth. However naive the cumbersome plots may seem to more sophisticated readers, confession editors argue that they faithfully reflect their audience's view of society. Unlike white-collar women, the Macfadden people explain, Wage-Town women "seem to see all men as more powerful figures: dominant, independent, sexually active and demanding, and, over all, as more mature than women." Says Editor Dorrance: "In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief. In our magazine they're the hero and heroine. We have no comic figures. Women, after all. have little...
...propose drastic solutions that involve risk or hardship. Instead, they suggest that most problems can be solved by affection, tolerance, self-discipline-what Sociologist David Riesman calls the "newer, internal goals of happiness and peace of mind." Where their uptown sisters may lean on Norman Vincent Peale or Miltown, Wage-Town women have their magazines...
...extra-heavy January decline. Unemployment also took a better turn, dropped by 123,000 to a total of 3,121,000 jobless. U.S. factory hands earned an average $82.41 a week, a new record for the month. And with hourly earnings of $2.05, the workingman had the highest wage level of all time...