Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to be working on Christmas. I decided that if I liked a position, I'd stay, but if I didn't, I'd move on." He moved on and on for the next 28 years. He got jobs as a census taker, factory worker, salesman. Once, during the Depression, he worked his way around South America on the tug Mira Flores. A storm disabled the boat, and "we lived off flying fish for four or five days. Caught them, bit off the heads and ate the rest...
...month brought slight rises in rental and fuel costs, but they were offset by price cuts in clothing, house furnishings and automobiles. The steady price level meant that the average factory worker could buy more: weekly take-home pay in March reached a record $69.47 (for a man with three dependents), up about 75(-f from February...
Calluses & Quotas. Serrano had no thought of becoming a wetback, a border-jumper. Instead, he wanted to be a bracero, a legal farm worker entitled to full protection of U.S. laws under the U.S.Mexican Migrant Labor Agreement. Of the two required qualifications, one came naturally for Serrano: callused hands to prove that he was a genuine farm worker...
...E.T.U.-A.E.U. did not strike London's Communist Daily Worker, which does not belong to the Proprietors' Association. The paper said that it would meet the E.T.U.-A.E.U. demand. However, the Worker's compositors walked out on the grounds that if the Worker could afford to boost wages of maintenance men, it could take back compositors laid off in a recent economy drive. Twelve days after the strike's beginning, the Worker settled with all its employees, and for two weeks it was London's only daily (TIME, April...
...white-collar worker who's never ben further away than New York reads American literature he missed in business school next to an Indian student who has studied all over the world and now wants to enhance his knowledge of Americana...