Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more militant days, when he was a social worker and M.P. for London's tough Limehouse district, Attlee had said that if he ever went to the House of Lords, it would be as "Lord Luv-a-Duk of Limehouse." Now he chose simple "Earl Attlee" as his title, without any geography...
...Detroit one afternoon last week, a bored Republican campaign worker dumped an armload of four-page election handbills into two conveniently empty newspaper racks. In a few hours, passers-by had snapped up all the campaign tabloids, deposited $3.52 in the cash boxes...
...church or think of religion. Some of them weren't even baptized, many aren't baptizing their own children. Yet they need God so badly!" Andree has worked only a fortnight at Citroen, yet she is already getting to be known as a missionary worker. "Last week a fellow worker noticed my ring and asked about my family. I invited her to our garret, and when she arrived, I told her the whole story. We're close friends already. By the time my hands harden up the whole plant will know. Already other girls are beginning...
Industry has learned that there is a law of diminishing returns operating against the expansion of individual units beyond a size where management can function effectively and the worker feels some identification with his job. Decentralization is the current pattern of economic development. I suggest that America and education and the individual student and teacher will be better served if the educational expansion which must take place in the next generation is also decentralized. We will be in a far healthier condition in all kinds of ways if there is a multiplication of community colleges, and a limited expansion...
...what about this great prosperity-this repetitious chant which is being drummed into the minds of the American people? Is there prosperity for the small businessman who, in greater number every day, is forced into bankruptcy or swallowed up in monopoly mergers? Is there prosperity for the white-collar worker whose fixed salary makes it increasingly difficult for him to make ends meet? Is there prosperity for the American farmer...