Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Population will increase 25 million, to 190 million people, and each worker will labor 200 hours less each year...
Juan Perón, who called himself Argentina's "No. 1 Worker,'' turned out on his downfall to have been merely the country's fastest worker. Evidence left behind after his hasty flight to asylum on a dinky Paraguayan gunboat reduced the 60-year-old dictator to a lonely eccentric and tawdry libertine who liked his girls young, his gadgets golden, and his plunder plentiful. Almost the first witness that the new regime's investigators turned up was a sun-ripened lass named Nelida ("Nelly") Rivas, 16, who apparently had been...
...test case early this year, California's Industrial Accident Commission ruled that a worker who broke a leg while rushing out of the office during a coffee break was entitled to workmen's compensation...
Home & the River. The case concerned Emmett Louis Till, 14, who was sent by his mother, a Government office worker ($3,900 a year) in Chicago, on a family visit to her home town with her uncle, Mose Wright, 64, a sharecropper and sometime preacher. One day a cousin drove him and some other Negro youths to the nearby hamlet of Money (pop. 75) to buy 2? worth of bubble gum. On leaving, his friends later said, Till rolled his eyes and whistled lewdly at a white woman in the grocery, Mrs. Carolyn Bryant, 21. Later two white men took...
Both men were questioned at McCarthy's 1954 Boston hearing, but were asked about different individuals. Furry and Kamin were members of the Communist party at different periods; Kamin wrote for the Dally Worker, and Furry was a member of a Communist discussion group. Kamin had never worked for a government project, as Furry had during World...