Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers should be retained. It found that Dr. Furry was "not now under the domination of the Communist Party," that Dr. Markham "is not, and never has been, a member of the Communist Party," and as to Mr. Kamin, that "About July, 1950, he ceased writing for the Daily Worker and dropped out of the Party without formal resignation...
...Robert Collier Page, 46. Medical director for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and new president of the Industrial Medical Association, Dr. Page is the nation's most articulate pleader for a sweeping program of preventive medicine at the plant. Instead of waiting for a worker to get sick and then treating him, he argues, management should protect its investment in his health by doing everything possible to keep him from ever getting sick...
...periodic health inventory of employees is an absolute essential, to Dr. Page's way of thinking. It begins before placement in a job and should go far beyond the usual perfunctory pre-employment checkup. It should be followed at regular intervals by a comprehensive survey of the worker's sociological position, emotional factors, his reaction to stress and strain, the character of his home life
...experiment was a rousing success. By the time the show was over, 26 paintings and sculptures had been sold for a total of $9,755. Among the buyers: a 34-year-old electrical worker who bought a dramatic canvas called Death of Agamemnon, by Kenneth Evett, for $450 ($85 down, $20 monthly). Fearing that he would be kidded by his fellow workers for"spending so much on art when I could buy a car or something," he asked Meta-Mold to keep his identity secret, hold on to the painting until he could find a place to hang...
...Agamemnon to Marquette University on an indefinite loan, with the stipulation that he will be allowed to come and see it whenever he wishes. At the unveiling ceremonies, university officials made speeches, a student read the death scene from Aeschylus' Agamemnon. In the audience, beaming anonymously, was Factory Worker X, who was about to pay the current $20 installment on his picture...