Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sipping green tea in his 30-room official residence last week. Premier Nobusuke Kishi ignored the dangling ropes and scaffolds outside his open window as workmen installed air conditioning on an upper floor. Even when a heavy window frame slipped from a worker's hand and landed with a splintering crash on the ground, the smooth flow of Kishi's talk and his relaxed manner did not change...
Despite the upward creep of prices, real incomes are climbing much faster. By 1950 the average city worker's purchasing power was 2¼ times greater, in constant dollars, than it was at the beginning of this century-not counting fringe gains...
...result, the average worker spends far less, proportionately, on food, shelter and clothing. While he spent 80% of his entire income on these three necessities around 1900, he now spends only 57%. Clothing is no longer even one of the Big Three. The average worker's family spends a seventh of its income on transportation -mostly on the family car-only a ninth on its backs. It gets considerably more use for its money; e.g., the average scrapping age of automobiles rose from 6½ years in 1925 to 13 in 1955, largely offsetting the increase...
...Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly line or a scientist in the lab, has some real urge and need for creative participation in industrial activity...
Another U.S. revolution from which Europe has everything to learn is the social and industrial one. According to Bruckberger, the U.S. has defanged and debunked the class struggle. Europe's classical capitalist economists, e.g., Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.'' Karl Marx said, in effect: ''Sheep of all countries, unite! Together we shall bring about the Revolution of the sheep and . . . eat the wolves.'' Quite apart from the typical European unrealism of this notion, Bruckberger points out, what the Russian people...