Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magic Number. As the Pacific Express roared down the runway into the night, six of the bounced airmen clustered around a Red Cross worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under...
...file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
...evident. He is likely to emphasize pension terms, better hospitalization and medical plans, more generous unemployment benefits. But the big firecracker that is sure to set up a ringing in management's ears is a share-the-work plan to reduce the dangers of unemployment by giving each worker a three-month vacation with pay every five years; when the senior workers go off, younger men will fill in. Says McDonald: the idea will create 30,000 new jobs in the industry at a cost of only about 12? an hour...
Onto the television screen flashes the image of a widowed U.S. worker, five little girls and a boy huddled around him. Their problem is spelled out to the viewer: what does a man do if he has six motherless children and no hope of a job? Answers the worker: "I don't want to put them in a home. The nearest thing for me is the river, but that's a horrible thought...
...changes were about double the normally expected springtime improvements. They reflected a sizable dent in the idle-worker problem that has been the only major bad spot in the nation's recession recovery...