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...Tony Grzebyk and his fellow workers in the automobile industry far more than their hourly wage is their annual wage. A diemaker may ask and get $2 per hour for his skill. But if he can get only ten weeks of work per year he is worse off than the 50? day laborer who has year-round employment. Trouble has always been that automobile sales were highly seasonal, rising to tremendous peaks in April and May, dropping into deep valleys in November and December. Production and employment followed the same steep curves. This pattern was cut in the industry...
Save for the collection of Southwestern and Indian art and 6,000 volumes of Americana given by Mrs. Taylor, the Fine Arts Center as yet has no permanent exhibits. With Artist Boardman Robinson supervising year-round classes in painting, sculpture, murals in true fresco, lithography, drawing, the Center will also seek to co-ordinate the musical and theatrical emanations of "the Boston of the West...
...whole Author Luhan finds her life in Taos very satisfactory. Not a year-round recluse, she often has brilliant friends to stay with her, and then the simple life blossoms out into cocktails, dinner parties, crackling conversation. After such an occasion, she admits with amusement, her Indian husband, who has spent the evening playing solitaire, refers to the salon as "flies buzzing...
...must pay, or go to charity clinics. Half of Great Britain's 36,000 doctors have voluntarily listed themselves on insurance "panels," similar to the jury panels of U. S. county courts, from which any insured person may pick his personal physician. The panel doctor averages a steady year-round income of $40 a week...
...every man, woman and child in the U. S. were sick enough to need, and rich enough to employ, a private nurse at least one day each year, the 350,000 graduate nurses (R. N.s) would have steady year-round work. But there is by no means enough private nursing to go around. Last week the graduate nurses of the land set out to compel hospitals to hire them in place of student nurses. With no use for student nurses, hospitals would then have to discontinue their nursing schools. That, in turn, would compel the creation of independent, preferably university...