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...workingman may have more leisure time, but his boss is working longer hours than ever. That is the conclusion of a survey made by the Chase Manhattan Bank and reported last week in its bimonthly Business in Brief. Since World War II, the average worker has gained an additional 155 hours a year in time-off, now works a 40-hour week or less. On the other hand, 40% of all managers, executives and proprietors put in more than 48 hours a week on the job, usually carry home work in their attache cases...
...first TV station went on the air in 1954; today one out of every two families owns a set. The average workingman's wage is $1.11 an hour. Conditions are still primitive in some of the interior hills, but there are strong vocational training programs and plenty of job opportunities for skilled workers in the new plants going up. Lured by ten-year tax exemptions and joint Puerto Rican-U.S. financing, U.S. investors are pumping money into the island at the rate...
Olmi's hero (Carlo Cabrini) is a welder, an ordinary workingman: doomed to his job, tied to his home town. Sicily seems to him an inhospitable place. The company hotel looks like a concrete waffle. The nearest town is huts and ruts. The local night life is limited to a single soda fountain of soul-searing fluorescence. After three weeks in this hell, the miserable welder imagines home as heaven and his fiancée (Anna Canzi) as an angel. When she sends him a letter, he greets it like an annunciation. Eagerly he replies, and soon the fianc...
...utter folly that one should criticize Lord Home's appointment on the basis that he is an aristocrat and therefore has little knowledge of, and even less compassion for, the problems of the laborer. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unquestioned champion of the American workingman and a wealthy aristocrat of the first order, would presumably also be considered by Mr. Harold Wilson an "elegant anachronism." I believe such a label would, in fact, be held in contempt by the vast majority of Mr. Wilson's own Labor Party. As can be seen by the example of Mr. Roosevelt...
Like Ford, whose Lizzies were his earliest competition, Morris set out to build a simple, reliable and economical automobile that could be produced in volume and priced for the common man. "I look forward to a time," he once said, "when it becomes a recognized thing for a British workingman to have his own car." When Britain's auto business slumped in 1921, he gambled on cost savings from his new assembly lines and cut prices to a point where his loss per car was $240. But sales zoomed from 1,500 a year...