Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Well, it is very curious. When one works in daytime, it is easy to do your regular work. You have your desk, your paper convenient. But it is hard in daytime to get something that is completely different from conventional notions. So I used to work hard all day and...
Should pension systems be set up for all U.S. industrial workers? Last week, after a survey of 1,000 industrial executives, Mill & Factory magazine reported that 78% of them would go along with some sort of company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As...
All this speculative fever had been stirred up by the hope that the U.S. would raise the price of gold, and thereby devalue the dollar. To this, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder had said no, a thousand times no. He had flatly declared that the U.S. will not change...
Pressure. Most of it came from U.S. gold miners and such big gold-producing nations as Canada and South Africa. Their argument: at the present price of $35 an ounce, gold mining is unprofitable, and production is slumping. Furthermore, it is unfair to hold down the price of gold when...
Sound & Fury. For all their persuasive details, such arguments were built on shaky economic ground. Were gold miners entitled to a raise? Since 1927 the price of gold has gone up 69%, while wholesale prices in general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price...