Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About 28 million "proletarians"-miners, factory workers, clerks and mechanics. A typical worker's home: one small bedsitting room (for a man, his wife and two children), with kitchen and toilet facilities shared with the next-door neighbor. The average worker's wage buys him an austerity diet of bread, fish and potatoes (fresh meat is a luxury), and such occasional relaxations as a ticket to a soccer match or a jugful of cheap vodka...
...agricultural brigades, bossed by the commissars. Pravda described one brigade at work on the Lenin's Memory kolkhoz: "The brigade women pick the potatoes dug up by machines driven by the men . . . They are followed by supervisors from the party cells who mark down the efficiency of each worker...
After a visit to Pope Pius XII, Cardinals Feltin of Paris, Lieénart of Lille and Gerlier of Lyon announced a conditional reprieve for the French worker-priest program recently suspended by the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 28). Hereafter, worker-priests will be attached to parishes or traditional communities of priests, will no longer work full time at secular jobs-thus minimizing the chance that some of them, living by themselves in Red-tinted industrial areas, will be led astray by the Communism they set out to fight...
...master was a worker, With daily work to do, And he who would be like Him, Must be a worker...
...chief argument for price cuts before production cuts is that production cuts snowball, i.e., a worker who is laid off must cut his purchases all down the line, thus affecting dozens of industries. On the other hand, a price cut affects only the individual company and possibly its stockholders. However, with corporate profits at close to an all-time high-and the death of the excess-profits tax only six weeks away-many corporations should be able to trim prices without endangering dividends...