Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, largely wiping out the extra-heavy January decline. Unemployment also took a better turn, dropped by 123,000 to a total of 3,121,000 jobless. U.S. factory hands earned an average $82.41 a week, a new record for the month. And with hourly earnings of $2.05, the workingman had the highest wage level of all time...
...Prudential was not seriously involved in the great scandals. Founded a quarter of a century earlier by a sober, bookish young man named John Fairfield Dryden, it did its first business in "industrial insurance" for the workingman, policies that cost only pennies a week for up to $500 worth of life insurance. By 1911, when Founder Dryden died, it had 10 million policyholders on its rolls, soon afterward started shifting over from a stock company to a mutual operation owned by its policyholders...
...tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced to foot the bills for "the luxuries and extravagances" of opera stars paid $1,500 a performance (actually a lot less than was paid 30 years ago). Tenor Mario Del Monaco volunteered to accept a pay cut "if other singers will do likewise." There were no takers...
...favorable as Allied Chemical's profit of 8%, Du Font's 22%. But Faina's goal is as American as apple pie, though it may seem as unlikely in cartel-minded, low-wage Italy as pie in the sky. Says President Faina: "I want every workingman to have 100 shares of Montecatini, a home of his own, a car. a refrigerator and television in his living room. It can be done, and we're going...
...barely five when she refused to eat sugar because French front-line soldiers in World War I were deprived of it. At 14, she dispensed with socks because the children of the poor could not wear them. As a young schoolteacher, she flirted with Marxism. To "understand" the workingman, she took a job as factory hand in an auto plant ("a decision fundamentally silly, the illusion of the Vassar girl of all lands," as one critic put it). Although she fell ill with pleurisy, she enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists, vowing never to use the gun she was issued. Before...