Word: across-the-board
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...Authorized a 12% across-the-board wage increase...
...they were below parity. He could slap ceilings on processors and retailers. But under the law, if processors and retailers had to pay more for farm products selling below parity, they would still be free to raise their prices. (Even Harry Truman, who said last week that across-the-board controls were in the cards, finally admitted that food prices could not be controlled satisfactorily without a change in the law.) Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food prices as of Dec. 15 had jumped 3.2% in a month, to within a hair's breadth...
...basic argument rocked U.S. industry and Government last week. Should across-the-board price & wage controls be slapped...
...There wasn't even a skeleton organization around to enforce full controls.* But by this week there was such a round of price and wage boosts that the urge to impose across-the-board controls -whether it made strict economic sense or not-had become almost irresistible...
Choking the Argument. Businessmen were not blindly fighting higher taxes as such. Many of last week's witnesses had alternative proposals of their own, e.g., higher corporate income taxes, flat across-the-board profits levies. On the committee itself, New York's Republican Representative Daniel A. Reed tried to offer a plan to permit corporations to choose between a flat 55% corporate income tax or Snyder's 75% excess profits levy. But Chairman Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 87-year-old North Carolina Democrat, refused to listen to any alternatives, insisted that Congress had given him a "mandate...