Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expects these highs to be tested. In fact, the commission found that the Uffizi had 50 paintings "without which it would be impossible to write the history of Western art," and each worth $2,000,000 or more. Which was just the point of the whole exercise -to shock Italians into realizing the value of their own patrimony...
...first time since the '30s, Negro field hands are striking on the cotton plantations of western Mississippi, where the pay is $3 a day and the hours are dawn to dusk. Ardently promoting the strike and helping to organize a union of the fieldworkers is the Delta Ministry, set up by the National Council of Churches last September to work for social and economic justice for Negroes and achieve a "reconciliation" of the races in Mississippi...
What lives in an Eastern or Mid-western city, ranges in age from 21 to 40, earns about $7,500 a year and is thirstier than a Bavarian immigrant? Answer: the typical U.S. beer drinker. Beer production in the U.S. last year reached 98.5 million barrels, or 27 gallons for every adult. No less than 75% of this sea of suds, however, was downed by those 21-to-40 urbanites, who constitute only 20% of the population. Since the group's size is due to increase 11% by 1970 and another 37% by 1980, even higher beer sales foam...
This story is making the rounds in Western Europe-and a lot of businessmen choke a little as they laugh. Though things have not really reached that stage, the joke symbolizes the changing mood and manner of labor in many of the free world's industrial nations. In prospering northern Europe, in Australia and even in Japan, most of whose economies for centuries have been based on an abundance of cheap and diligent workers, labor shortages are now the rule. Being so sought after, the workers have grown as finicky as French chefs about everything from drafts...
Barring a worldwide recession, labor shortages in these highly industrialized areas seem likely to increase, probably for a decade, despite automation. Western Europe's labor force is growing only half as fast as that of the U.S., and rising industrialization in southern Europe is expected to curb the flow of job seekers across international borders. In fact, before long, the tide may even reverse a bit. Industries around Milan and Turin have begun buying ads in Dutch and German newspapers offering good jobs at home to trained workers. This, of course, irks the Dutch and Germans, who paid...