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...professors are Dr. Julius B. Richmond, chairman of the department of Preventive and Social Medicine and professor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, and Charles V. Willie, professor of Education and Urban Studies at the GSE. They will work with 18 others on the commission...
...countries to jack up prices, U.S. embassy Agriculture attaches will keep tab on coffee inventories throughout the world. The U.S. Government is considering the creation of a buffer stock of 20 million 132-lb. bags, starting its buying as soon as prices fall. Says House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Fred Richmond, a New York Democrat: "We are paying $7.5 billion for green coffee beans [this year], when we paid $1.5 billion for the same amount last year. That means the American consumer is increasing foreign aid to coffee-producing countries by $6 billion-without congressional approval." Perhaps-but says Fausto Cant...
...despite the over 50 per cent unemployment rate among black workers during the Depression, 400 black women in the Richmond tobacco industry went on strike against their $3-a-week wages and miserable working conditions. Within 48 hours the strikers obtained wage increases, a 40-hour week and union recognition. The women had been considered unorganizable before they walked...
...last major industries to become automated, is making up for lost decades. Since the 1960s, most major dailies have begun computerizing their composing rooms and even their newsrooms, where the video display terminal is fast replacing the typewriter. The attendant productivity increases have been prodigious. The Richmond Times-Dispatch, for example, can now set type for a page of classified ads in 90 seconds, up from four hours in 1972. Savings: $1.2 million a year...
...their shaky economies, however, Brazil and other coffee-producing nations have increased export taxes on beans and reaped windfalls. Brazil's tax per pound has jumped from 22? to 75? Colombia, the second largest producer, now demands $1.47 per pound in taxes. Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Frederick W. Richmond, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, charges that "this is a crisis dreamed up by coffee-exporting nations to gouge the American consumer...