Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before and after her luncheon at the White House, the Cosmetics Queen visited U. S. cosmetics factories with a view to buying some $100,000 worth of factory equipment. The traveling belts on which the jars of powder and perfume rode from worker to worker, floor to floor, particularly fascinated her. "Our women," she said, "can afford to pay as much for cosmetics as American women. Even our men are shaving more regularly and taking up the use of toilet water...
...formulas, its production, profits and other internal affairs are deep Fels secrets. Last week, therefore, U. S. financial editors rubbed their eyes when they received a brief news release announcing that Fels & Co. had just paid its 35th annual employe bonus. Lowest payment amounted to 22½% of a worker's yearly wages. Attributed to President Fels was this statement: "We are happy that through depressions as well as in periods of prosperity . . . we have been able to pay a bonus without interruption...
...went, year after year. Gradually Ruki's lot improved: he became a dependable worker, was finally allotted a woman. She made him save his money until there was enough in their old age to let them return home with honor. Night before they were to start Ruki's old bad habits overtook him, and he gambled it all away. Once more he signed the contract, but by now he hardly cared...
...engineering projects which are being undertaken in New York," continued Ridder, "are renovating the entire city plant in all its ramifications, and they provide jobs for the laborer, for the worker in the skilled trades, and for large numbers of engineers and draftsmen...
...company had chopped down most of the forests near its U. S. newsprint mills, that its machinery was largely obsolete. He proceeded to build and buy enormous new plants in Canada and Newfoundland, where the pulpwood supply was handy and adequate. And since papermaking requires more power per worker than any other industry, except possibly electro-chemicals, he built hydroelectric plants to turn his paper mills. While he was about it, he installed enough generating capacity to serve a sizable section of Ontario and Quebec...