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...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...
...have also neglected to mention certain of the achievements of this Administration in domestic affairs, such as the reduced government expenditures, balanced budget, reduction of inflation, a $7.5 billion tax cut, and other things indirectly related to the Administration, such as record high employment, the increase of the workingman's share of the national income and the reduction by 42 per cent of strikes in 1956 as compared...
...malicious prosecution against his accusers, and won $9,000 damages. With his new wealth, Lyon went to one of the most fashionable painters in town and commissioned a portrait. He had no wish to be portrayed as a gentleman, he informed the startled John Neagle, but as a workingman. Yet the canvas must be splendid. It must show him lifesize, laboring honestly at his forge. And in the background must be seen the accursed jail from which providence had rescued him, its cupola topped by a weather vane of crossed keys...
...cave. The young apprentice nicely complements Lyon's robust maturity. His big feet spread and firmly planted, his heavy arm and hand holding the hammer with negligent authority. Blacksmith Pat Lyon himself easily dominates the huge canvas. He seems truly at home in it-as the workingman has long since come to be in the nation...