Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young officer who drove an army truck up a blazing driveway where Mydans was shooting pictures, leaped out, tossed some cans of gasoline in the truck and backed out furiously, shouting at Mydans, "looks like you found a story." He turned out to be former TIME circulation department worker Mike Sednaoui...
...fastest human") wore a pair of brand-new spikes; his old shoes had gotten wet and fallen apart. Patton got off to a slow start, along with Dillard, who was hoping to qualify in two events (dash and hurdles). Ancient (30), competition-wise Barney Ewell, a Negro foundry-worker and a father, whom nobody had given much of a chance to win, made a flying start, pumped furiously with knees high for the first 60 yards, then relaxed a bit as if waiting for Patton and Dillard to catch up. He finished nearly two yards out front, equaling the world...
...National City Bank warned that inflation was hurting the "middle class" to the point of undermining its "social and civic responsibility" and "creating the seeds of depression." Taking 1930 living standards as 100, the bank reckoned that the average coal miner was now up to 191, the auto worker to 132, the teacher to 109, while the small stockholder was down to 79, the rail executive to 78, the pensioner to 65, the wealthy stockholder...
Deep Waters (20th Century-Fox) is a very mild movie about a lobsterman (Dana Andrews) who loves the sea, a state social worker (Jean Peters) who hates and fears it, and an orphan (Dean Stockwell) in her charge who gets caught in their crossfire. The boy loves the sea as much as Dana does; Dana is glad to take him on as an apprentice and even wants to adopt him; Jean does everything she can to keep him out of the dreadful trade...
Under Luckman, Lever Bros, productivity has increased over 10%. Luckman gives much of the credit to suggestions from the workers themselves, under the worker-management "joint plant committees" he set up with his unions. Luckman himself is behind such morale-boosting devices as meals at cost (average price 37?), liberalized vacations (up to three weeks for ten years' service), insurance and pension systems, abolition of time-clock-punching for salaried workers...