Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankly, to the worker that lives on the coffee plantations of Salvador or in the cattle-raising ranches of Uruguay, mere expressions of the juridical equality of nations have little reality. This may also be true of the farmers of the United States. If the ideal of Pan-Americanism is to become deeprooted, it is absolutely necessary to convert it into a factor of welfare and of concrete benefit for our people...
...worker's "take-home" (wages plus production bonuses) increased 10 to 15%. Production costs per unit dropped 10 to 15%. In effect, said WPB, 400,000 new workers were added to the labor force at a comparatively trifling cost...
...been a more dramatic figure, few have been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...
...chief of its delegation (which included seven women) was 44-year-old trade-union chief Vasili Kuznetsov, a rugged, hard-driving steel worker who learned to speak fluent English while working for Henry Ford in Detroit. Britain's 15 delegates were headed by veteran T.U.C. Secretary Sir Walter Citrine,* who spoke for British labor. The U.S. delegation, led by P.A.C. Chairman Sidney Hillman and U.A.W. President Rolland Jay Thomas, spoke only for the C.I.O. The A.F. of L. had haughtily refused to sit down with the Communist Russians...
...U.S.French First Tactical Air Force in France, onetime Chief of Staff for Air, Southwest Pacific, who led the first aerial squadron in France in 1917, the first Australia-based bombing of Japs on Luzon in 1942; and Agnes Berges, 36, ex-Manhattan hotel executive and overseas Red Cross worker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Detroit...