Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black market, season tickets to Salzburg's festival cost 900 schillings, about six months' pay for an average Austrian worker. In the center box, filled in the old days with European royalty and U.S. millionaires, the native citizenry could ogle General Mark Clark, his wife and daughter, the Archbishop of Salzburg, and Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl...
...time in history. This measure was declared necessary if England was to help food starving Europe, and, at the same time, insure a minimum supply of bread at home. Unfortunately, bread rationing hits the lower classes harder than the upper, for sandwiches comprise a, large part of the ordinary worker's lunch. Considerable opposition to bread rationing developed, but Parliament supported the Government on this issue, and rationing will continue until the shortage is alleviated...
...outrageous prices, largely because of the sale tax. The average cost of a new British automobile, smaller and less powerful than the smallest Chevvy or Ford, runs about three thousand dollars. Concomitantly, wages are ridiculously low according to our standards. A skilled rayon mill weaver or wool spinning worker makes between twelve and fifteen dollars a week--wages long since vanished from the American scene...
...Worker in Flight. Bjartur doggedly hangs on, growling at his family, glorying in his independence. World War I-that "blessed war," that "beautiful war," which sends the value of Icelandic exports sky-high-makes Bjartur prosperous. But only for a time; and when the crash comes, Summerhouses is sold to satisfy creditors...
...lone worker," preaches Novelist Laxness, "will never escape. . . . The life of the lone worker, the life of the independent man, is in its nature a flight from other men, who seek to kill him. From one night-lodging into another even worse. ... Such is the story of the most independent man in the country...