Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist leaders of France's coal strike, which in less than a month had cost the nation 3,000,000 tons of coal, last week tipped their hand. From Communist headquarters came a statement: "The miners' struggle is not only to secure legitimate wage adjustments, but also a struggle for the defense of national independence . . . threatened by American imperialists striving to drag our country into...
Wearing their sheep's clothing when they first called the strike, the Reds had asked for wage raises to meet the cost of living, which had begun to soar again with the recurrent cabinet crises of last summer. Non-Communist miners and even the general public could sympathize with that. Premier Henri Queuille's government offered wage raises amounting to about 15%. But the Reds stalled, and last week in some areas they. called out maintenance crews who manned pumps and ventilators in the mines...
...tough time, but the middle class is having the worst time of all. The moneyed aristocrats (formerly known as the "ruling class") have to dip into their capital, but they are still vastly better off than anybody else. The working classes have had wage raises to meet the cost of living, and are otherwise taken care of by a solicitous Labor government...
...Geoffrey earns $60 a week. They live in a pleasant, tree-lined suburban road at Heston, in a house with three bedrooms and two living rooms. Geoffrey hocked himself to the ears to buy the house. Before the war, it would have cost $3,800; as it was, it cost $9,600. Geoffrey put down $400 saved from his war pay, borrowed $4,800 from a building society and another $4,400 from an uncle...
...fleetest greyhounds money could buy congregated at Abilene, Kans. to race in the U.S. Challenge Cup. It was dogdom's Kentucky Derby, run over a green carpet of young Kansas wheat about two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood home. This greyhound is Mount Mahan Rebel, who cost Owner George Oswald of Los Angeles $3,500 in Ireland less than a year ago. In the cup final, he met a grey and white Texas dog named Foggy Weather. While chasing a jack rabbit at 40 m.p.h., the pair of them crashed like two speeding autos side-swiping...