Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hope You Choke." "The noise in here drives you bugs after a while," said his co-worker Salvatore Recupero, "but he never come off his machine to talk to anybody. He was a bandit for work." But along about last Christmas, Peter Akulonis' inner fiber began to fray and shrivel under the pressures and strains of life. At lunch he sat apart, alone and unhappy. When a friend bought a new car, he asked: "How can you afford that when I drive a pile of junk? All I do is work and go home. . . I'm not getting...
...months ago, a loud, cigar-chewing, Savannah car-rental operator, R. J. Bedgood, skipped town, leaving Hazel and her office holding the bag for $20,000 in mortgages on missing automobiles. After a year of investigating, Hazel developed one slim lead: Bedgood had once been a construction worker and might be working somewhere in the construction business...
...National Productivity Council tried to persuade union representatives that more and cheaper production is Britain's only hope. The council got nowhere, for union men have long memories of un employment and living on "bread and drip." Said one delegate: "If you ask a Tyneside worker to turn a ship around in two weeks instead of four, he wants to know what you would expect him to do with the other fortnight...
...very least, Pravda's little sermon represents 1) a step in the unmaking of the Stalin legend, 2) one more indication that Russia is not now ruled by one man, i.e., Malenkov, but by a directorate. In New York, the Daily Worker, which has been having the devil's own time trying to find a party line to follow, significantly hedged its bet last week. After an initial hesitation, the Worker had firmly called the new regime "the Malenkov government." Last week, in a classically awkward phrase, it urged Eisenhower to meet with "heads of the Soviet state...
Cure. In Manchester, England, Steel-worker Edward Eckersley, who hit his 61-year-old mother on the head with an ax, was only put on probation after a detective told the court: "She suffers from high blood pressure and he genuinely believed the old wives' story that a blow on the head would relieve...