Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was tearfully threatening to shut down her paper unless she could save money by using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned...
...leading authority on labor law, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board in 1952. Earlier, he was associate solicitor of the Department of Labor, and for a time he served as principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board...
...music teacher and sometime composer, Michelangeli was a child prodigy who taught at Bologna's conservatory when he was just 16, was heralded as "the new Liszt" at 19. After serving in the Italian air force during World War II, he returned to wage his own private war on the concert circuit, soon became known as "the Callas of the piano" for such transgressions as walking out on recording sessions and playing before a white-tie audience with his overcoat on. Performing, he decided, was "a detestable world of managers and journalists, of tricks and schemes in which...
...often in such make-work jobs as operating automatic elevators and opening and closing doors in government buildings. As a result, the government has 75,000 workers and a payroll of $200 million a year-meaning that one in every six inhabitants is a government employee, with an average wage of $2,666. Little wonder that the Kuwaitis are fighting so fiercely to keep trouble from their garden...
...which has 683,000 vacant jobs for 106,000 persons on the unemployment rolls. The shortage would be even worse if Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal were not continuing to export labor; of northern Europe's 4,000,000 foreign workers, 24% are in Germany. Even so, wage boosts this year in Germany (8%) and England (61%) have leaped ahead of productivity increases and are a major factor in those two nations' inflationary spirals...