Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily Worker, U.S. Communist Leader Eugene Dennis (long an industrious Stalin bootlicker) put the accusation more mildly than the French and Italian Communists: "Why did these things happen? Were they inevitable? Are they inherent in socialism, in Communist philosophy?" And of the current leadership he inquired: "Did some of them try to bring about changes before the last three years? Could the past evils have been checked earlier? How big and serious are the changes now under...
...flash of genius, discovering a new principle and founding a new industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler Corp. has 200 scientists and engineers assigned solely to gas-turbine engine development...
Joseph, the father, is a common factory worker, and at 50 he is passive and dizzy from having punched too many time clocks in peace and war. The mother, Margarethe (Moe for short), is openly carrying on an illicit affair with a boarder young enough to be her son, and all the older children know it. Daughter Katie has the instincts, if not the business acumen, of a prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot...
...Saarinen's contemporaries long ago discovered, there is a dynamo of relentless energy behind his easygoing façade. A round-the-clock worker, he sets such high standards of perfection that on occasion he holds his draftsmen and designers at their drafting tables straight through the night, is so prodigal with money for research that he recently spent $12,000 to win a competition that guaranteed only $4,000 in expenses. But judged by the results, Saarinen's total approach pays off. His work has won the applause of the glass and steel purists, yet pleased clients...
MOBILE PENSIONS enabling workers to carry accumulated pension credits from job to job are being pushed on West Coast. After short strike, Libby, McNeill & Libby has signed agreement giving 1,500 West Coast Teamsters Union members mobile pensions, will pay 10? per hour per worker into fund which union and management will administer jointly. With Libby victory, Teamsters have won mobile pensions for a total of more than 200,000 workers in eleven Western states, hope to boost total...