Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenets is that the poor must play a decisive part in planning and bringing about their own salvation, a concept that has caused conflict with city politicians and confusion in Congress. At last week's conference were delegations from urban and rural slums, from Watts and Harlem, Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta...
Workers, even for unskilled jobs, are scarce. Detroit automakers have imported unemployed mountaineers from Appalachia to sweep floors at $3 an hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...
...expanded at 20% a year, double the already high rate of the past five years. Skilled labor has become so scarce that Inland Steel is trying to fill 600 job vacancies, is recruiting as far away as 400 miles from its East Chicago base. Detroit automakers are hiring unemployed Appalachia mountaineers to sweep floors -at $3 an hour. For its part, the Government has poured on more inflationary fuel: the national income accounts budget, which measures how much money the Government adds to or drains from the economy, has shifted from a $4 billion surplus to a $2 billion deficit...
...sympathy for people who are not members of the currently fashionable minority groups. The most fashionable minority, of course, is the American Negro, and quite properly so, for Negroes suffer the greatest discrimination and deprivation in our society. Puerto Ricans and the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant residents of Appalachia are also -- again, quite properly -- fashionable groups to champion. (The best index of fashionability is probably the number of articles about the group in the New York Times Magazine.) Other groups, however, which suffer less discrimination and deprivation -- for example, ordinary working people of Irish, Italian, or Polish descent -- are generally...
...Christmas reunion with her husband in Hong Kong or Manila. An offer of 500 cases of beer from a Cincinnati labor union was regretfully declined by the Defense Department. Gratefully accepted was a continuing flood tide of blood donations from thousands of students at more than 60 campuses from Appalachia to Austria...