Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market would soon be strong enough to bear higher prices. There was some difference of opinion as to whether the rise could be sprung this summer or whether it would be better to wait till October. But to a man, the steel executives offered the same justification for a hike: in the past three years, the steelworkers' average wage has jumped 30? an hour without any corresponding steel price rise. "To maintain a reasonable profit margin," said Republic Steel's Thomas F. Patton, "we should have a price increase...
More for Less. For nearly a decade after World War II, the steel industry fought rising costs by the easy method of raising prices, instead of by modernizing its equipment or seeking to broaden its markets. Since 1946, steel prices have been hiked about 150% in twelve installments, roughly the same as the hike in the average hourly wage-although steelmen claim that fringe benefits add another 40% to the wage hikes. Only since 1958, when recession cooled the climate for price rises, has steel had to struggle along without its favorite easy...
...away from Brooklyn, McClellan was driven into an unfamiliar downgrading role by a surfeit of success. "Los Angeles," he says, "is currently drawing more people than can easily be absorbed." To pay its share of the $65 million World's Fair cost, Los Angeles would also have to hike its already "staggering burden" of taxes, a price that McClellan does not feel would be justified by the temporary economic boost the city would get from fairbound tourists...
...annual rite of spring in Britain is fast becoming the Aldermaston march. For the fourth Easter in a row, thousands of Britons turned out to hike 54 miles from the site of Britain's nuclear weapons research headquarters to rally in London's Trafalgar Square, though many cut in only for the last few miles. Parents pushing baby carriages, barefoot teenagers, businessmen and clergymen, there were more marchers than ever before-some 14,000-and this year another batch began its assault on London from another direction, outside the gates at Wethersfield, site of a U.S. Air Force...
...young children or dogs," "Don't wear anything that will distract the attention of the would from our great issues"). Delegations from towns and foreign countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare floors...