Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrialization called forth new skills, the French workingman's average pay jumped 60% (to $80 monthly) in a decade; Danes and Norwegians average 84? an hour, v. 42? ten years ago, while Swedes get a minimum $1.16 an hour, v. 50? an hour in 1948. The British secretary who once considered herself lucky to draw $1,100 annually can command better than $2,800 in 1959. The sums may not be princely by U.S. standards, but they are enough to open up a new way of life...
...Botched It Up." The fixed contestants solemnly played along with the cheap little travesty. Labor Organizer Richard Jackman, built up on Twenty One as a workingman's Jimmy Stewart, won $24,500 and pangs of conscience, settled for $15,000 when told by Enright that more "would throw the budget out of whack"; then he had third thoughts, started to sue Enright for the other $9,500, got it. Apple-cheeked Kirsten Falke, then only 16, was picked up for Twenty One's penny-ante sister show, Tic Tac Dough, when she answered a call to audition...
...economic indicators that have the biggest personal impact on the U.S. workingman-employment, work week and salaries-are steadily moving upward. Last week the Labor Department reported that employment in June climbed to 67,342,000. the highest level in U.S. history and a gain of 4,600,000 since February...
...long has given a distorted picture of what actually is happening in U.S. living conditions. This week, in a monumental 253-page book. How American Buying Habits Change (U.S. Government Printing Office; $1), the BLS handsomely made amends. It summarized the upgrading in the life of the average U.S. workingman since the bureau's first survey...
...have a child by another man. Connie Chatterley falls in love with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, learns for the first time what real sex is all about. Sir Clifford, of course, is incensed at Connie's betrayal of her class. Why make love to a workingman? By this time Sir Clifford is more than half in love with his lady attendant, and the book ends with Mellors working as a farm laborer and waiting for Connie to join...