Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incredible Big Lie. Through the U.N., the International Red Cross has offered to investigate, and has been brusquely rebuffed by the Communists. Meanwhile, the Big Lie is spread with undiminished intensity by Russian and Chinese press and radio, by such native-son instruments as New York's Daily Worker and the West Coast's Daily People's, by France's Humanite and its Communist-Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie...
Died. William Fox, 73, onetime grand panjandrum of Hollywood, producer of such hits as Cleopatra (with Theda Bara), Seventh Heaven and What Price Glory; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, ex-Newsboy and ex-Garment Worker Fox launched himself in the entertainment world when he used his $1,666.66 savings to buy a rundown Brooklyn nickelodeon. In 1915 he formed the Fox Film Corp., pyramided it (on paper) by 1929 into a $300 million empire, amassed a personal fortune of $35 million. But the cost of equipping 1,100 Fox theaters for talking pictures proved...
Commenting on his recent trip to New Zealand and Australia, Griswould described the pleasantly lackadaisical atmosphere that pervades the island continent. A worker will hold his job for a while, then take, his kids to the sea-shore, and return only when the money runs out, he explained...
Labor consistently rejects incentive chimes like worker-dividends, deeming them devices for fattening he bosses, he said. As a result, the Melbourne away is still far from completion although its cornerstone was-laid in the 1920's. But nobody seems to mind very much...
...From a distance, the $11-million factory looked like many another-a mass of storage tanks, pipes, warehouses, and above it all a thin wisp of smoke. But close up, it was like nothing else in the world. Amid the maze of gurgling pipes and steaming valves, scarcely a worker could be seen. Staffed by only 50 men-mostly chemical engineers-the plant runs continuously, 24 hours per day, with scarcely any need of human attention...