Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...housing developments, steel mills-are begun and never completed. At Zenica, slated to be the Pittsburgh of Yugoslavia, you see it spelled out. Peasants undertaking to become skilled workers wander back to the land. Youth brigades are digging foundations for a rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just when...
...darlings whom the Tito Reds woo with special treatment and propaganda. I went to a youth demonstration to celebrate the partial completion of dormitories for Belgrade's new University City on the Zemun Marshes. Thousands of teen-agers billed as students had worked here for months in "Voluntary Labor Brigades." With the major construction done (though floors and windows were not in), the volunteers had been summoned to a monster rally...
...Once India was free and Gandhi dead, Patel and Nehru shared supreme power. While Nehru made speeches and handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with...
While the debate went on, automen were open in charging that they had been double-crossed by Washington. After G.M. and Ford had raised their prices-and Valentine had requested them to rescind the increases-the automen had trekked to Washington with charts and figures to show that labor costs had risen 11% and that materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in natural rubber this year...
...Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1940 to 1949, one of the leaders in taking New Zealand to socialism over the past 15 years; of a heart attack; in Wellington, New Zealand. Born a cobbler's son in Scotland, Fraser went to New Zealand at 26, rose from labor unionizing to Parliament to the cabinet. Dourly witty Teetotaler Fraser was admired even by his political enemies for bossing relief during the 1918 influenza plague, once selling his own furniture to aid the needy during the Depression, working for the welfare of New Zealand's Maoris. Last year, after...