Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hike in the official U.S. gold price, went the argument, would give gold-holding nations a windfall profit to ease their dollar deficits. On its part, the U.S. could use the paper profit from its $24.5 billion gold hoard for loans to other nations...
...eating places in the Boston and Cambridge area. The Ararat, as Armenian vittles bazaar at 71 Broadway, is tasty--and cheap, a bit out of the ordinary. Simeone's, 21 Brookline Street--1 block from Central Square--offers Italian-American cuisine for those who don't want to hike it all the way to Boston. You can't beat the Viking at 442 Stuart Street for variety. A heaping smorgasbord is within easy striking distance of most tables. Jake Wirth's on Stuart Street featrues the best local Gorman beer and food, while the Cafe de Paris at 165 Mass...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
...York, after 16 weeks of sporadic violence, half of the Bell Aircraft Corps.'s 3,000 workers were still holding out for a 15?-an-hour wage hike, $100-a-month noncontributory pensions and other benefits which the company estimated at an overall 62½?-an-hour increase. Trying out a new tactic, striking members of the United Auto Workers Local 501 observed Ladies' Day on the picket lines. Helmeted, club-swinging strikers' wives attacked three Bell engineers who tried to pass through. Deputy sheriffs, clubs at the ready, promptly arrested a handful of the women, then...
...while turning down Murray's demands for a 12½?-an-hour wage hike, the board also took dead aim on the steelmakers. Their modernization program, when complete, should result in higher profits. If these profits were not passed along to the consumer "in the form of lower prices," said the board, then labor would be justified in trying again for higher wages...