Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family: Married in 1922 to clerical worker. One son is a clerk for the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, the other a telephone-company technician in Munich...
...their own time, Jessop's managers and workers alike pitched in for a year to lug away junk, paint cranes, repair roads, whitewash walls, mend roofs, hang office draperies-all led by Rackley in person. Only once did a tired worker complain, calling Rackley a phony. Equally tired, Rackley promptly punched the dissident in the nose. In admiration for his hard work and leadership, employees gave Rackley a $2,000 kitchen for his home last year, gather there for parties with the boss...
...handful of tools. But he had neither money nor shop with which to put them to work. Today Grundig is Germany's No. 1 radio-set maker, claims to be Europe's biggest. At 48 he is owner and ram-rodding boss of a 13,000-worker, six-plant electronics business that last year grossed some $50 million on sales of 900,000 radios, TV sets, phonographs and recorders. Almost half were exported, including big shipments to the U.S., where Grundig sets are marketed by Majestic International Corp. and DeJur-Amsco Corp...
...heart attack. William Fruehling, 49, of St. Croix Falls, Wis. (pop. 1,500), a village handyman, had been helping to take a snow plow off a truck in zero weather just after lunch when he collapsed, half in and half out of the cab of his truck. A fellow worker had found him, wrestled the 200-lb. null onto the seat of the truck and drove it a quarter-mile to St. Croix Memorial Valley Hospital...
Real wages kept a step ahead as Americans piled up heavy overtime pay; the average factory production worker with a wife and two children took home an all-time peak of $76.54 a week, $1.30 more than the month before. Paychecks will grow even fatter. In February alone, hourly wages of some 500,000 U.S. workers in the transport and electrical industries will move up 1¢ to 3¢ under cost-of-living escalators. Warned BLS: "Rising costs and strong aggregate demand will very likely underwrite a continued climb in consumer and wholesale prices...