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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President John S. Bugas, eying Walter Reuther's promise to win his United Auto Workers a shorter work week and "a hell of a lot" more money in 1958, put much of the blame for the current inflation on labor's demands for ever higher wages and fringe benefits. Argued Bugas: since 1954 wage packages have exceeded 5% annually in key industries, and these increases have not been absorbed through greater productivity. The result: increasing cost pressure against prices. The ultimate result, if labor continues to ask not only for "an increased share of a growing...
Since the University of Nevada is the only institution of higher learning in the state, anything that happens there is apt to make headlines. But not since its foundation 83 years ago have the headlines registered the bitterness they have shown in the past five years. Since he took over in 1952, President Minard W. Stout, 49, has been the center of so many political and academic storms that he now holds the distinction of being the most discussed figure in the state...
LOOSER MORTGAGE MARKET is in sight, and home loans will be easier to get in months to come, say Manhattan bankers. Reasons: demand for other types of credit is slackening, and higher interest rates are boosting savings, making more money available...
According to Wells, the national demand for polio vaccine during April was higher than the available supply. Drug companies, however, have recently stepped up production to meet this demand. "But the supply available to us is certainly not unlimited, and a few might be disappointed," Wells continued. "If the supply lasts, we hope to hold mass inoculations again during the first week of June...
Organizers have told employees here that, although the University once paid higher wages than any Eastern institution, M.I.T. has surpassed Harvard since its employees affiliated with Local 254. They also cited the lack of any provision for arbitration in the University employees' contracts...