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...last remaining gap in the system has been old-age pensions for white-collar workers, who otherwise enjoyed all benefits. Last week President Gabriel González Videla closed the gap. He signed a bill that gives salaried employees pensions equal to 100% of their pay at 60, plus a benefit that now seems all-important: an escalator clause guaranteed to keep their retirement pay abreast of the cost of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Pensions for Everybody | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...French Revolution and from Conservative roots in monarchical Spain, have become blurred. The most frequently mentioned issue nowadays is religious: Liberals are mildly anticlerical (although Colombia is 99.5% Catholic); Conservatives warmly embrace the church and its hierarchy. There is no clean economic cleavage between the parties, but industrialists, labor, white-collar classes tend to be Liberals, while landholders, many farmers and most priests are Conservatives. Liberals, in the last contested election, polled 58% of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: War Without End | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Said a jubilant Wall Streeter: "We've finally caught up with the white-collar class." The source of the joy on Wall Street was a decision last week by New York Stock Exchange governors to make the summer five-day week permanent. To make up for the shorter week, trading hours will be extended half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Five-Day Week | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...empty under the sun, and I had a feeling that it was always so." He finds that his resistance to sexual temptation, of which he has been proud, was really nothing to brag about, after all-"The truth was that nothing had been offered me." The role of a white-collar Faust, in short, had its drawbacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Collar Faust | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Patton found that top management salaries between 1939 and 1950 increased less than those of any other working group. In eleven years, management salaries rose 35%, while those of foremen rose 83% and hourly and white-collar workers, 106%. The relatively small executive increases, plus heavy taxes in the high-salary brackets, cut down executives' real purchasing power 59% while hourly and white-collar workers had a rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Killing the Goose | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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