Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other than that, labor asked, among many other things, increased unemployment compensation, a hike in the minimum wage from $1.25 to $2, double time for overtime, and a 35-hour week. While it will not get everything it seeks, the chances are that the next Congress will be more amenable to labor's claims than any since the early Roosevelt years...
...raising the U.S. discount rate from 3-s% to 4% in response to a hike in the British discount rate-the interest that central banks charge their members-the Federal Reserve Board showed how closely interwoven have become economies that are oceans apart. By helping to rescue the faltering British pound (see THE WORLD), the U.S.'s money managers demonstrated how tightly bound together are the fates of the Western world's two major currencies. "It was an orderly operation all the way," said William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve, "and showed that the bankers...
...France has become a financial torment as well as an Epicurean pleasure. Restaurants tack on extra charges for everything from napkins to green vegetables, and les additions have risen higher than souffles. Disturbed by the 9% rise in restaurant prices in the last year compared with a hike in overall living costs of 2.5%, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing has decided to broaden France's 14-month-old price-stabilization program to cover menus. Last week hard-eyed government inspectors set out all over France to make certain that the nation's 50,000 restaurants henceforth...
...experience, for a union vice-presidency in 1955 against the candidacy of the Buffalo district's rough-hewn Irish leader, Joseph P. Molony. The extent of the Steelworkers' restlessness was demonstrated in 1957 when Donald Rarick, a relatively unknown Irwin, Pa., local leader, protesting a union dues hike, ran against McDonald for president, polled 223,516 votes to McDonald...
Columbia's latest hike means that the school's tuition has gone up nearly 73 per cent since 1959. Tuition was $1450 in 1960-61 and $1575 in 1962-63; it is $1700 this year...