Word: white-collar
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...situation appears, however, its future possibilities look better because of the quick profit-and-loss reflexes of President Lynn Townsend, 42-a cool, no-nonsense executive who took over from the flamboyant Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert. Last year, while he was still administrative vice president, Townsend fired 7,000 white-collar employees and sold off a clutch of Chrysler plants and office buildings in an effort to bring the company's overhead into line with its present share of the auto market...
...handsomely in new jobs. In the lead is Florida, which has rocketed ahead 95%-fueled by Cape Canaveral's missiles, by chemicals, and by carloads of tourists. After Florida, the heaviest percentage growth is in the nation's southwest quadrant. Texas with its petrochemicals, military bases and white-collar industries, California with its missiles and electronics plants, and Florida now account for one out of every six nonfarm jobs. Five Rocky Mountain states (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada) all advanced at more than twice the national average, "not only because of defense installations such as Los Alamos...
...rosters filled. But it has not worked out like that. Between them, for example, the U.A.W. and the Steelworkers have lost more than 400,000 members, mostly to automation, in the past five years. Organized labor has made few compensatory gains. Most of the new jobs are held by white-collar workers, who have composed a majority of the labor force since 1955. These white-collar workers are notably reluctant to join unions, particularly since management is willing to give them most of the benefits that the old lunch-bucket unionists had to fight...
...words. Glittering, prosperous, capitalist-run West Berlin stands in humiliating contrast to Ulbricht's own drab, run-down capital just across the sector border; moreover, West Berlin's refugee centers provide the escape route for most of the 200,000 skilled workers, engineers, farmers and white-collar professionals who flee Ulbricht's miserable country for the West each year, sapping East Germany's very lifeblood...
Miller himself indeed worked as a proofreader ("a white-collar coolie") for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, was attached to a little magazine, not transition but Booster, and danced not the Charleston but a fandango along the gutters, in the brothels, bistros and mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...