Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Known in the scientific world as a rollicking wit and a hard worker, stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) Physicist Herb York got his start in science as a small boy in Rochester, N.Y., when his uncle gave him a book on astronomy. He worked his way through the University of Rochester (A.B. '41, Phi Beta Kappa), took his Master's in 1943. After that he joined the parade of topnotch atomic physicists at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children...
Warning Sounds. Early one morning last week Willem Heynen's son Pierre drove his car from the fog-filled village street into the warm, brightly lit caverns under Rosenburg Hill. More than 100 workers were tending the long trays filled with sand and manure in which the mushrooms grow. Extra help had been taken on to meet the rush of holiday orders. A worker complained to Pierre that the gallery walls had been making a cracking sound. Pierre, who knew that the walls had been cracking and creaking for centuries, sent the men to another area...
...force of technical and service workers appears to feel little need for unions. Organizers for the United Auto Workers have landed only 8,000 of Chrysler's 30,000 white-collar workers, have been unable to crack Ford or General Motors. The United Steelworkers union has enlisted less than 30% of the estimated 160,000 white collars in the nation's basic industry. One reason is that management has learned to combat union organizers by granting white-collar workers the increases given to unions; e.g., General Motors, Ford and Chrysler handed about the same increase to office workers...
Cake Line. In Philadelphia, a worker stopped off to pick up unemployment money from the company that had laid him off, told Employment Manager George Brobyn: "Hurry up; my cab is waiting...
...workman who once put aside a few dollars a week towards his retirement, now buys into the market through a mutual fund or the Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan. So does the middle-income white-collar worker who hopes to send his son through college, the matron who saves to give her daughter a bang-up wedding. In Atlanta Mrs. Sara Pfeiffer, a trim, energetic grandmother and freelance writer, has organized three investment clubs, is busy with a fourth. Says a Cleveland commercial artist: "This year I became a capitalist. I went into the market for the first...