Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downside. He proposed that wages be tied to living costs. His offer to G.M.'s 225,000 workers was a flat 3?-an-hour increase now, plus an 8? hourly boost which would increase or decrease as the cost of living rose or fell. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index rises, G.M. would add 1? to wages for each 1.14 points of higher prices.* If the index falls, 1? would be subtracted on the same scale. But there would be a floor on the downside; no more than 5? would be subtracted during...
...over one incident. A woman called and told her that she, too, was a divorcee with two children and would Dorothy please send her any men she didn't want. "I told her," said Dorothy coldly, "to get her own man. I'm not running a matrimonial bureau...
...Alsop, now a thin-haired 37, became a journalist when his wealthy Connecticut family (kin to the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) decided that its fat and bookish son was good for nothing else. A discreetly pulled wire got him a job with the New York Herald Tribune. In its Washington bureau, where his first official appearance was at a White House party, he found politics more fun than Proust...
...April, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 90,000 new houses were started, 20,500 more than in the same month last year. Civilian employment, said BLS, is also headed for a new peacetime high of 62,000,000 jobs by September. Industrial production, which had dropped in April for the second consecutive month because of the coal strike, was on the rise again. After the disappointing Easter season, department store sales, reported the Federal Reserve Board, were "at exceptionally high levels" in April and the first half...
Highest. The cost of living reached an alltime high in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The Bureau's index rose 1.4% to 169.3 (1935-39 equals 100), more than wiping out the drop caused by February's commodity price break...