Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worker Priests...
Lawyer Pflimlin, whose name (pronounced roughly Fleemlan) means "Little Plum" in his native Alsatian patois, is a textile worker's son who joined the new Catholic center party, the M.R.P., after returning from the war in 1945. His impressive oratory, bad temper and enormous energy have led colleagues to dub him "The Mendès-France of the M.R.P." Like most Alsatians, he is solidly pro-European. Along with several other Catholics, he recently protested French atrocities in Algeria. His success in forming a government depends on whether the Socialists decide to participate on his terms, which he summarized...
...year-old worker who accidently stood in front of a powerful radar transmitter ten feet away for less than a minute died within a fortnight. Thus, last week, reported California Surgeon John T. McLaughlin, an industrial medical consultant. There were no marks on the victim's body, but "his insides were cooked ... A hole as big as a silver dollar was burned in his small bowel." Dr. McLaughlin has seen other, less severe cases, warns that high-powered radar microwaves (similar to those used in electronic stoves) can do serious damage at short range without proper safeguards by causing...
COMPANY MEALS The Corporate Way To the Worker's Heart...
Some businessmen believe that what and where a worker eats is his own affair. They say that company lunch programs are paternalistic, that it is good for employees to get away from the job briefly, that dining rooms and cafeterias waste company capital and space-to say nothing of the headaches they bring. But as industry decentralizes to rural areas, restaurants for workers are few and, far between. In crowded cities, where drugstore counters are jammed and restaurant food is either poor or expensive, the problem is just...