Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well prepared as possible for the thaw and rain, Marciano said. On Wednesday almost every available worker was out clearing ice and snow from the drains around campus, he added...
Weaver and a co-worker, Dr. Stephen A. Spongberg, spent a month in northern Japan and northern South Korea collecting 505 specimens, several of which represent species very rarely cultivated in the West...
More than a year ago, 30 Chicano farm worker families formed a strawberry co-op, borrowed $175,000 from the Wells Fargo bank and $100,000 from the federal government...
...discuss the small family farm only in terms of productivity and efficiency is to ignore the most compelling reasons for its preservation. The nature of farm organization largely determines the quality of life of America's agricultural workers. Enforcement of the acreage restriction could lead to the creation of thousands of new farms and help destroy the two-class system of agriculture prevalent in many parts of the west. On farms of 14,000 acres hundreds of people who could own their own land serve instead as employees subject to the whim of a landowner who has the power...
...majority leader has never had many chances to get used to frills. Indeed, Robert C. Byrd did not even begin life as Robert C. Byrd. Born in North Wilkesboro, N.C., he was named after his father, Cornelius Calvin Sale, a furniture factory worker earning $5 a week; but his mother died during the flu pandemic of 1918, just before his first birthday. Her last wish: that Cornelius Jr., the youngest of five children, be raised by Sale's sister and her husband, the Byrds, who moved to Stotesbury, W. Va., when he was four. Renamed and unaware that...