Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the sound & fury, OPA approved a 1? hike in the price of a loaf of bread, already cut 10% in weight to save grain. The increase, on the heels of OPA boosts in the price of butter and milk, looked like a lively hint of things to come...
...Uranium, a source of radioactive products, may now become more important in medical research than radium. With the increased use for uranium the roles will be reversed. Hence Canada will probably hike its price for uranium, lower it for the radium byproduct...
...Curran and Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, had made its wants plain. In the main, they were: 1) a 22?-an-hour raise for the lowest ratings, and graduated raises up to 35? for longshoremen and skilled ratings-an average hike of 30%; 2) a 40-hour week and an eight-hour day; 3) $1.25 to $1.75 an hour in overtime pay; 4) retroactivity to Oct. 1, 1945. When the operators winced, the left-of-left C.M.U. pointed out that its able and ordinary seamen were working some 60 hours a week...
C.C.L. Silby Barrett presented Labor's four demands: 1) permit the National War Labor Board to approve a 20% hike in take-home pay for a 40-hour week; 2) abolish the system allocating wage control to the War Labor Board, supervision of working conditions to the Government conciliation service; 3) establish industrywide, instead of individual plant, bargaining; 4) order Government-sponsored negotiations in strikes already under way. Added Barrett meaningly: "If these proposals do not receive consideration, strikes are inevitable. There is danger of strikes in steel, automobile, electrical, hard-rock mining, chemical and packinghouse industries...
...bagrinhos (dockwork-ers-literally, "shadfish") promised not to do it again. Minister of Labor Octacilio Negrão de Lima rushed into town, reiterated the Government's conveniently forgotten pledge to replace airless, lightless dockside tenements with modern housing. The workers accepted his offer of a 54% pay hike...