Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depressing aspect of the dispute was that it could have been settled overnight with no apparent injury to either side. It would cost Ben Fairless nothing more to waive his condition of worker contributions. Fairless pointed out that it would cost most of the workers nothing more in the long run to kick in a few cents; many of them were already contributing to pension and insurance funds. Pension money would belong to them as surely as if they had put it in a savings bank...
...quick glance, they seemed to be good propositions for everybody. Ford's mandatory payments of 8 3/4?-an-hour a worker would go into a fund administered by an insurance company, would supplement the 1 1/4?-an-hour insurance program already in effect. After 30 years of service at age 65, workers would be paid enough out of the fund to give them a $100-a-month pension, counting in their Social Security. As Social Security increased, Ford's part of the obligation would decrease. Ford could count on a lessening of its labor turnover; workers could look...
...Harvard group includes two architects, two lawyers, four journalists, an economist, a teacher, a social worker, and a civil service worker. Their ages run from...
...Professor Leontief warned against the train of thought that devaluation will greatly add to the economic strength of the West and that consequently there should be little to fear. "Russia may be rubbing her hands right now in hopes the British worker will have to cut his tandard of living by such degrees that Communism will easily be able to take over Britain...
Back in the U.S., Putnam joined the Communist Party, did a literary column for the Daily Worker, was an associate editor of the New Masses, kept on translating (Novelists Ignazio Silone, Georges Duhamel) and writing his own books (Paris Was Our Mistress, Marvelous Journey). He spent eight years with the party in "misguided humility" before he quit...