Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped him plow 100 acres and seed them with corn and soybeans, 15 women spread a potluck lunch, had a friendly good time. The plowing done, Richter tried to thank his departing neighbors, but broke down. Said Farmer Harold Hearstad: "He's a nice fellow and a good worker. He just worked too hard...
...more than 30 years. Once willed the job of American labor chief by A.F.L. Founder-President Sam Gompers, Woll was blocked by U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis, who railroaded William Green into the slot left by Gompers' death in 1924. Matt Woll stayed on, a hard and able worker, and a visual standout in his natty garb-he favored striped pants, a gates-ajar collar...
RECORD INCOME of $3,400 per capita, some $150 more than in 1954, was earned on an average by each U.S. male worker last year, says Census Bureau. Average income for U.S. women showed no gain, has held at same $1,100 level of last three years...
...departure. Damnable." Cried Lady Docker even more tearfully: "It's not the loss of the gold cars that makes me feel like this. And weren't they fun? They were like my children. No, it's that lovely party I was planning for 25,000 B.S.A. workers for my 50th birthday on June 23. A tiptop affair -and now it's all off. How could they do this to him after 17 years? Why, he's such a hard worker that he had a through line to the firm from our yacht...
Manhattan's Daily Worker, tripping lately over a weaving party line, tripped last week over the Communists' longtime claim that Russia is a classless society. "In the leading and biggest socialist country, the U.S.S.R.," said the Worker, "classes have been completely abolished." Next day, under the headline CORRECTION, the Worker set everybody straight: "The sentence should have read '. . . exploiting classes have been completely abolished...