Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This proposal to hike charges has been advanced by Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Department of Economics. Harris believes that tuitions should be doubled immediately, and the cost spread over a 20 to 40 year period through long-term loans...
...fight was over the I.A.M.'s demand for a new contract containing a fat pay boost. T.W.A. mechanics originally demanded a 49?-per-hour pay hike on a one-year contract, plus changes in T.W.A.'s seniority and supervisory rules. A month ago T.W.A. countered with an offer of 40? per hour over a three-year period, later boosted it to 41? per hour, the level at which the I.A.M. recently settled with Northwest Airlines. But it was not enough for the mechanics. Snapped T.W.A. President Charles Thomas: "The company withdraws the offers it has made...
...going to have a pretty rough time trying to avoid" a military outlay hike in the fiscal year starting July 1, McElroy said...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, after paying its first dividend this year, canceled a 10% pay cut for its 633 officials earning above $10,000 yearly. The line also gave a 10% pay hike to nonunion workers making less than $10,000, plus an 8? hourly boost to all union workers...
...production last week reached 69,599 units v. 45,387 the week before, and prospects are for a production of 75,000 this week. Production was still held back by wildcat strikes at General Motors, but other carmakers hiked schedules. Chrysler hopes to increase production 15% this week. Ford's Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln division plans a 40% hike, and Studebaker-Packard scheduled a 50% rise; with Ramblers running off the line at an alltime peak, American Motors raised schedules...