Word: earner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every man has the right to a living wage for himself and his family, derived from "work good for his body and soul." Every wage earner should have a reasonable opportunity to become a property owner...
...managers who are not yet managing are likewise not solely responsible. Each U.S. citizen, as consumer, wage earner, factory worker, housewife or as a silent contributor to morale, faces the same responsibilities. Today, the U.S. consumer has more buying power than he ever had before in his history. Soon there will be $5 billion banked up behind the houses, the automobiles-the items known as durable consumers' goods-that he wants and will not be able...
...these pages and as he is polled by the FORTUNE Survey, he is a strange character. He is the factory worker on whose production the course of history depends, but he is also the union member who is entangled in fights within his union. He is the wage earner whose income is now greater than it ever was, but he is also the buyer of things-houses and automobiles-that take materials of which the U.S. has not enough. He is the small manufacturer who, when he goes to Washington, cannot find a hotel room, the proper office...
...prepare U.S. radio listeners for a week during which it became difficult to tune in without hearing Benny hailed or Jell-O joshed, Variety had published a Benny issue, complete with impressive data on the rise and take* of radio's richest earner. On one program Eddie Cantor recited: "You've come up the hard way. old fellow, I mean the hard way, not the soft way like Jell-O." On another', Punster Fred Allen spent 60 minutes abusing his friendly enemy while Wife Portland tried to finish a squeaky paean beginning: ''All hail...
...year's end, the false boom was over and prices slipped again. Although food staples from sugar to navy beans had boomed in September, the average wage-earner's food costs rose only 5% over August's level. By December, most of this was wiped out and living costs were lower than in December...