Word: labor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also included for good measure: the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Department of the Air Force, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury...
...that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed a resolution urging party members to boycott South African goods for a month in protest at the appointment...
...days when imperial Japan was running its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, it drafted Koreans for forced labor in Japan. These Koreans and their children, more than 600,000 strong, have been there ever since. Many of them want to go home, and the Japanese, who have no love for Koreans, would like to be rid of them. South Korea's strong-minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason...
...beginning relied not on persuasion but on the People's Liberation Army to lead Sinkiang through what the party called its "difficult period of rehabilitation." In that difficult period, landowners were dispossessed and shot, tight food rationing imposed and 12,000 "incorrigibles" shunted into six big forced-labor camps near Kuldja, Nilki and Kunes...
...light industrial plants; along the middle Rhine, from Karlsruhe to the outskirts of the Ruhr district, new oil refineries and petrochemical plants are popping up like mushrooms. France's war-ravaged port city of Rouen has new docks, new bridges, new housing developments for 60,000 workers, who labor in refineries, operating with three times their prewar capacity, and in new plastics and textile plants. To the south, the land opposite Venice's drowsy lagoon has emerged as one of Italy's top four industrial centers, producing more than 90% of the nation's aluminum...