Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year; unemployment meanwhile declined to 2,237,000, down 31% since August 1954, to the lowest level of joblessness since the fall of 1953. ¶Personal incomes climbed during July to an annual rate of $304.7 billion, up $17.6 billion since last July; Government and manufacturing incomes were higher, with average weekly factory earnings up to the alltime high of $77.11 a week; farm income was lower by 9.3%, but August farm employment, often seasonally lower, held close to the July level...
...months ago, France was enjoying something of a boom, and producing more cars, steel and textiles than ever before in its history. Production is going up, but last week, on their return from the beaches, French workers were out on strike in 17 provincial towns. Their demand was for higher wages to match higher prices...
British Inflation. In Britain, too the bloom was off the boom. British production is higher than it has ever been, but British wages are higher still. The result is a classic case of inflation: too many pounds are chasing too few goods. There was also chronic overemployment. There are 480,000 jobs going begging in British factories.. In such a situation, left-wing and Red-run unions have pressed reckless demands for more pay, threatening still further inflation...
...estimated production of 10,000) for an exhibition celebrating the old man's 87th birthday. Yokoyama acknowledged the flurry by commenting: "Doctors say I have an eye in half a million." Japan's leading newspaper, Asahi, evaluating a lifetime devoted to making high standards higher, wrote: "Yokoyama is like a mountain among low hills...
...with the U.A.W. embodying the Reuther version of the guaranteed annual wage. Like Ford and G.M. before it, Chrysler agreed to establish a fund to guarantee its 139,000 employees 65% of their regular pay for 26 weeks. It also promised minor raises for increases in efficiency and the higher cost of living. Cost to Chrysler: an estimated 20? an hour per employee, about the same as at Ford...