Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other plants in 25 states, and slowed U.S. production of defense-vital copper to a trickle. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the strike would "drastically curtail" production of tanks, guns and planes. Present wages of the union's men range from $1.31 to $1.62 an hour. Union demand: a general wage increase of 20? an hour, plus pension and other benefits that would add another 10? an hour. Last offer of the Kennecott Copper Corp. (see BUSINESS), on which the dispute centered, was an 11½?-an-hour increase in wages plus a pension plan to cost another...
...turn, when it wrote its control bill, permitted manufacturers and farmers to boost prices to make up for increased labor costs. In last week's decision, Johnston gave the upward spiral another shove. On the basis of the present consumer's price index, all workers may demand an immediate 2% boost...
...this week, Juan and Eva Perón braced themselves to lend an ear to the voice of history, look fate in the eye and shake destiny by the hand. The stage was set for at least 2,000,000 Argentines to gather in a vast, "spontaneous" outpouring, and demand that Juan and Eva run for President and Vice President, respectively, in the November presidential elections...
...AFFAIRS), higher costs and prices were in the wind. The Joint Committee on the Economic Report took a look in its crystal ball and predicted: "The pressures for higher prices [in the next two years] are not speculative but fundamental; [they] arise out of increases in basic costs and demand . . ." But last week, with many prices still softening, U.S. businessmen kept a wary eye on their buying and waited to see for themselves...
...Budapest got its first big boost during the war, when its Sunday-morning concerts from the Library of Congress were broadcast over a national hookup. The broadcasts led to more recital dates-and a big demand for records. The Budapest had made recordings in Europe. "But, my goodness," says Cellist Schneider, "the United States! It sells three or four times as many recordings as the whole world combined." Long-playing records ("just perfect for chamber music") have quadrupled the sale of the Budapest's music...