Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislators until it pays a better wage. The passage of the referendum simply denying a pay raise for the second time sweeps the question of what to do about the woefully underpaid ($5200 per year) legislature under the rug. Simultaneously, however, voters approved a pay hike for Boston policemen, boosting their starting salary to $6900. Neither salary is adequate, but the legislators ought not to be put under a greater compulsion to steal for a living than the police...
Inflationary Flutters. Such strong demand is added temptation for the steel makers to post a long-sought price hike after the election-especially when fears of inflation do not seem to be deterring other industries from raising prices. In the past few weeks, prices have increased for copper, zinc, tin, chemicals, paper and rubber. Viewing all this, and perhaps anxious to test a harbinger of overall rise, U.S. Steel and Inland Steel last week increased by 17% the price of the reinforcing bars widely used in construction...
Nonetheless, Reuther's score for the year was impressive, and it was enough to cause continuing concern among inflation watchers, who fear that the 4.8% hike in pay and benefits won by the union-which fractured the Administration's 3.2% guideline-may set a pattern for other industries. Sensing this concern, President Johnson last week expressed the rather optimistic hope that other unions will recognize the "unique" nature of the settlement in the highly profitable, highly productive auto industry and thus will be more restrained in their own demands...
...strike. A national dockworkers' strike has been postponed because President Johnson invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. Inland Steel Corp. Chairman Joe Block, the man who broke away from other steelmakers to support John Kennedy during the steel hassle in 1962, was making noises about a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that the Chinese Communists might explode their first nuclear device "in the near future...
...spanking-clean, well-located "name" hotel, but would rather die than pass up the "typical English" atmosphere offered, for not a single shilling less, by a quaint old inn that is not only musty and dusty but also assures its guests that the bathroom will be a good long hike away down the hall...