Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Automation. "Unless we begin to attack it, not as a problem in one plant or in one company, but as a national problem which demands our attention, then by 1970 the blight of West Virginia could spread across this country. We must make it plain that the installation of new machinery is a proper subject for collective bargaining. The Government must offer technical assistance to those companies which want to bring in new machinery but want to do it without undue hard ship to the workers...
...that was not on the tip of his tongue. Although his political instincts have been very sure, Eisenhower was not a professional politician experienced in the operation of party machinery. He found many of the day-to-day troubles of the party tedious, and. in particular, he loathed the problem of patronage. The President never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill. Except in the case of certain members who happened to be proficient golfers, there has not been any true comradeship between the White House and the Republicans in Congress...
...leaders of other rail unions met with Mitchell in Chicago to thresh out the problem of featherbedding on all railroads, Mike Quill turned his thick Irish brogue on Mitchell, whom he called a liar. The only heartening thing about Mike Quill's strike was the growing evidence that the U.S. has had its fill of Quill...
...called the pass rule "completely illegal," since it violated the old four-power wartime agreements. But as with all Soviet harassment in Berlin, the problem is what effective counter-measures may be taken. The U.S., British and French ambassadors to Bonn hurried into consultation with the West Germans to consider whether to retaliate by curtailing East Germany's $250 million annual trade with Bonn. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard (who is Acting Chancellor while Konrad Adenauer is vacationing on Italy's Lake Como) called on businessmen for a voluntary trade boycott...
...particular fates would ever have occurred to Maynard Wallace ("Wink1') Marshall, an urbane NBS nightly newscaster whose voice-charmed life demonstrates "how well a reasonably brainy man can do if he just doesn't use his brains.'' However. Wink does have an age problem, and it is all tied up with sex and suburbia...