Word: cents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointed out that the minimum size of the staff that was asked for exceeded by at least 100 per cent the number he had anticipated before the study was made...
...making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent of the time for which they are paid...
...eventual settlement of the strike may come through compulsory arbitration by the government, according to Professor Charles R. Cherington, who often acts as a consultant in railroad disputes. Although railways carry only 50 per cent of the nation's freight now, this is a significant half which must move to keep the national economy from halting completely. Cherington does deem the management demand for complete overhaul of work rules "extreme," and proposes instead a renegotiation of individual jobs...
...present, these nations are giving about $1.25 million annually in such help. Ninety per cent of this, however, goes to their own overseas territories...
Under a 1953 Allied agreement, Krupp was ordered to divest himself of 74 per cent of his holdings. This was to insure against the resurrection of a combine that had helped build Hitler's war machine...