Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill for nearly $8,000 in back taxes, Roden, unable to pay, remembered the dying days of World War II, when he kept his retreating Wehrmacht unit in meat by slaughtering cattle in the open fields of East Prussia. With Ewald Mischker, 48, a Düsseldorf stockyard worker, as his accomplice, Roden began to prey on the North German range...
...years, Soviet economists have inveighed against installment buying as simply another hobnail in the capitalist heel grinding the faces of the poor. When a Western worker lost his job, they declared, he lost his car, his furniture, even the home on which he could no longer keep up payments. Last week, in an unabashed about-face, workers all over Russia were invited to sign up for the installment plan as a wide range of Soviet consumer goods were made available on credit...
...have music in our home this very night." Whether cameras, clocks, accordions, motor scooters, outboard motors or silver fox furs, the terms were everywhere the same: 20%-25% down, a service charge of up to 2%, and the rest deducted in six to twelve installments from the worker's monthly paycheck...
These days, during the show's Boston tryout, the entire adult company of The Miracle Worker treats Patty as their professional peer. They hardly remember her age until, at her mother's insistence, she knocks off like a good little girl for her afternoon...
...about 8% a year, v. 4% for the U.S., since World War II-is that the Soviets have neglected the consumer needs of their citizens. But now a major change is on the way, and the growth rate is on the wane. Going out is crude coercion of the worker; coming in is personal incentive. This shift, says Nove, requires a major diversion of Soviet resources to the nongrowth sectors that the Kremlin ignored for so long...