Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added sharply, "Mexico must scrutinize any new private capital investment with care, supervising it closely. Foreign capital must be aware of and recognize its responsibilities and not merely provide a vehicle for the extraction of profits. The human factors involved-that is, whether the worker gets enough to eat and whether his malaria is cured-are the responsibilities of modern capitalism...
...mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders: "Do you know I'm a shareholder in the Daily Worker? But I can't afford to write for it-I write for Vogue instead." At times he is melancholy about the passing of the years: "I am 35 and I do want...
...least on paper, comprised more than 90% of China's peasantry. The movement is now spreading to the cities. At Yangchuan coal mine in Shansi province, where more than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners...
...troops, in return for which he issued bales full of newly minted dongs, all bearing Ho's portrait. But running an economy of 12 million people came a little harder. Today, salaries and taxes are still computed in bags of rice, and on this basis a worker earns 300 bags a year, while his counterpart in non-Communist South Viet Nam gets the currency equivalent of 1,500. In Hanoi, rice is still rationed, and beggars, though forbidden by law, swarm the streets. The dong has sunk so low-7,000 to the dollar-that it may well...
...finest hours are those she spends with her fine British friends; happily, perhaps, she never makes it to an England that never was. ¶Herbert Wragg, whose honeymoon was spoiled because the toilet paper at the progressive boarding house he stayed at consisted of squares from the Daily Worker...