Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitalist could have warned, things did not turn out that way. At the Zeran auto plant, 8,000 workers are currently building 15,000 cars a year (U.S. auto workers in a good year produce ten cars or more per man). At Nowa Huta, 18,000 workers last year turned out 984,000 tons of steel. Shrugs one Polish Red: "We might as well admit it-in Poland the average worker produced less than 55 tons of steel last year; in West Germany he produced 140 tons...
...ivory pipe which first attracted my attention, and the words he uttered unmistakenly escaped from it between irregular puffs of smoke. The small man facing me was John Gates, former editor of the Daily Worker and a leading figure in the Communist Party of the United States for more than 27 years...
...harsh antistrike measures were announced, Rebel Faustino Perez, Castro's underground chief in Havana, rechecked his strength. The strike call, widely predicted for last week, did not come. "Wouldn't you think a long time?" asked one Cuban worker. "Batista's men will be shooting to kill." Habaneros hoarded food, staged a jittery run on the banks...
When Doris Hull, 24, seemed to be wasting away despite visits to home-town doctors in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, her husband took her to Spokane to see Otis G. Carroll, 79, a practitioner of 43 years' experience. Though Paul Hull, a construction worker, thought Carroll was an M.D., he is actually a licensed drugless-healer -a "sanipractor." At his first examination (fee, $50), Carroll took a drop of blood from Doris Hull's ear, put it in his "radionic" device, twirled some knobs, concluded that he got a vibration at a dial reading...
...slice of all pre-tax profits above 10% of the value of shareholders' equity, i.e., the value of stocks plus surplus. Had the plan been in effect last year, each U.A.W. worker would have drawn a bonus of $591 at G.M., $500 at Ford, $323 at Chrysler. Estimated cost to G.M.: $275 million...