Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Allied bombings had been dismantled and shipped all over Europe, the Krupp firm was able to rebuild with modern equipment that produced faster, better and more cheaply than its old equipment, then being used by the British, French and Russians. Even more important were the thousands of Krupp workers whose loyalty to the firm drove them to frenzied efforts to rebuild. This "Kruppianer spirit" was the fruit of a cradle-to-grave system of social security started by the company more than 100 years ago. Now it owns housing space for 12,000 families, builds new houses...
...more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from 67 to 26. Since the early 19403, the average U.S. farm investment per worker has soared from $3,500 to more than $15,000. This technological explosion has made the small, unmechanized farm economically obsolete...
...fellow," testified Zakman with reluctant admiration, "that did everything wrong, and organized better than the rest of them ... He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'Everybody out on strike.' He didn't believe in elections. He was a hard worker." Predictably, the organization of cab drivers failed, Zakman was eased out of the union, and Johnny Dio finished up in the driver's seat, using the union for his own devices...
...worker and a hustler. I am young and healthy. I have brains, brawn, guts, a little capital, a good deal of energy, and I love Los Angeles...
...amount a man makes on his regular job does not necessarily determine whether he moonlights. It is the amount he wants to spend. Said a Chicago white-collar worker who drives a cab as a second job: "If you want to have a family and kids and a car and a house and TV, either your wife works or you work double." The California Teachers Association studied moonlighting among 17,000 male teachers under 30, found that 10,000 held other jobs, checking in supermarkets, clerking in clothing stores, selling insurance, etc. Among the married, the proportion ranged...