Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of 1960, may thus help to ease credit or at least prevent it from becoming tighter. The Federal Reserve would like to keep its present discount rate of 4% in effect even after a settlement, looks for interest rates to stay steady. Bankers do not expect a hike in the prime rate of 5% for some time, think that if it comes at all, it will be small...
...SUIT PRICES, holding stable this year, will rise $5 a suit on 1960 fall lines, says Jerome I. Udell, chairman of big Gramercy Park clothes. Industry looks for 7% hike in labor costs with new contract next spring, plus other higher costs...
POSTAL RATE HIKE on parcel post packages and other fourth class mail will go into effect...
...union has demanded an immediate 25 cents hourly wage hike, although its members presently receive $2.51 an hour plus fringe benefits, highest in the nation. The transit authorities, on the other hand, have proposed nine pages of work rule changes designed to save $2 million annually, and will probably refuse to grant another wage boost...
...showrooms. Dealers sold almost as many new cars in the first 20 days of October (338,465) as they sold in all of September, and sales for the last ten-day period were running 20% over the previous ten days. Some dealers took advantage of the scramble to hike prices, and even unsold 1959 models, in some areas, were commanding full list prices...