Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...when Harvard men of other years would have headed for the open path to success, the class of '30 found itself roadblocked by the Depression. Not surprisingly, these men often took whatever jobs they could get: Cameron Blaikie Jr. '30 reports positions as an apprentice iron worker, salesman for a chimney-cleaning oufit, bill collector, and finally a railroad...
Other whites were not so fortunate. Robert Donald, a construction worker, watched in terror from his own car as two young men were dragged from their automobile. Said he: "They stomped and stomped. I cried just like a baby." After Donald fled, Miami HeraId Reporter Earni Young witnessed more cruelty at the same site. Reported Young: "A late-model green car-I think it might have been a Chevrolet Impala-deliberately drove over one of the bodies. I think I saw it rip the man's arm off. The crowd cheered and yelled...
...industry's problems are staggering. Sales of U.S.-made cars for the middle ten days of May declined 30%; worker layoffs passed the 300,000 mark for the first time last week; and imported cars now command an unprecedented 27% of the domestic auto market. In Detroit, a town once noted for a cocky, can-do attitude, the mood is somber. Says Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "There's more at risk in the auto business now than there has been for a long time. Maybe ever...
Robert Kott loved the small, neat home overlooking Black Creek in the southeastern corner of Niagara Falls, N.Y., a grimy industrial town near the Canadian border. In the 14 years since he acquired it the muscular chemical worker has spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours painting, insulating and otherwise caring for his precious property. But last week Kott called it quits, shuttering up the house and fleeing with his wife Joann and their five children, ages seven to 15. Said he: "I don't mind telling you we've been scared for a long time, scared...
...book's first scene is in some ways its best: Philippa Palfrey, 18, a privileged girl, adopted, visits a social worker to start the legal process of learning the identity of her natural parents. Philippa is beautiful and cold; long ago she guessed that the Palfreys had selected her, when she was eight, because of her grave intelligence and unusual looks. For her and the reader the cruel blow comes early: her real parents turn out to be murderers of the most melodramatic sort. For the rest of the story James must crawl back from a cliché that...