Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swinging through the humming steel towns of Pennsylvania last week, TIME Correspondent Jack Olsen reported: "A reporter going in to interview the steelworkers about baseball's Pirates would have a snap. The men devote their off-hour attention to the fact that Harvey Haddix is pitching or Bill Virdon...
Roll Grinder Daniel Kuntz of U.S. Steel Corp. explained: "What the hell good is a raise? Everything goes up, and Uncle Sam takes 25% anyway. The important thing is to keep prices down." Added another workman: "If we get a raise, the merchants and the landlords raise prices to the...
The steelworkers would like to have longer vacations (now one week to start, two weeks after five years). But most of all, they want to retire earlier, at age 55 or 60 instead of 65, and on a pension higher than the companies' $72 a month. Argued Metal Drainsman...
Like the Army. On the strike issue, the steelworkers seemed to break generally into two classes. The strong young workers talked tall ("If there's a strike, I'll just go on vacation-I don't give a damn"), yet were unsure of what to strike for...
When the geriatricians have succeeded in adding another age to Shakespeare's seven, what will all the porcelain teeth chatter about? The same old things, answers thirtyish Author Spark in this novel of arthritis and ague. None of her major characters will see 70 again, but since no sin...