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These accomplishments of the new machines, said Gulick, will allow them to replace 78.4% of the men in factories employing more than 100, and 16.5% of the white-collar help. In ten years, he estimated, some 7,500,000 workers will be replaced by the intelligent machines. A national emergency could speed up the process greatly. Both management and government, said Gulick, will have to look sharp, lest a too-quick development of this sort leave a large part of the U.S. population without support or function...
...powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe, his wife approves, the stars favor him, the Democrats fold up, and the Republicans give him the nomination...
...month if she is very lucky-if she is part of the "Fine Time for All" you so glibly mention. Ask the bookkeeper, the stenographer the sales clerk, the minister, the teacher if they are wonderfully happy and full of financial pudding. Ask any one of the millions of white-collar workers of the lower income brackets, and ask any of the people living on incomes and pensions and insurance annuities if everything is just rosy...
...week for "diversion money." The girls are required to keep their own checking accounts at the school bank from fifth grade on, are marked for proficiency in keeping track of where the money goes. Dr. Templin has no patience with parents who prefer their daughters to "marry a white-collar moron instead of an intelligent well-paid artisan." Homemaking has first priority; girls begin learning to sew in the third grade, to cook in the fifth. "I don't see how any boy has the nerve to get married today on what the average girl expects," says Dr. Templin...
...crisis had begun when white-collar workers of swarthy Edgardo Maass's Chilean Federation of Private Employees (CEPCH) struck telephone and electriclight companies (TIME, Feb. 6). President González declared the strike illegal and moved in troops; Maass threatened a general strike. González stood firm. On Tuesday, bank employees walked out. Next day, they went back to work, but white-collar workers in quasi-governmental institutions struck. On Thursday, the bank clerks went out again, joined this time by bus drivers and workers of 30 other private industries...