Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wages during the strike, won little, if anything more than their brothers and sisters who had struck other electrical companies. The general pay increase was in the fashionable 18½?-an-hour area (except for some 13,000 women workers, who will be granted a 22½? hike...
Winded. In Downing, Mo., John Barker celebrated his 100th birthday with a two-mile hike, did all right except once: the wind blew him down...
...week's end, Jorge Pasquel got a dose of his own poison. Vern Stephens, who had jumped down to Vera Cruz for two games, jumped back into his old job with the Browns-at a reported $4,500 hike in pay. As a bargaining stick, Mexico's "beisbol" league could be used both ways...
Ohio banned sale of K-F's new issue because there was no earnings record to warrant the 100%-plus hike in the price. So did Michigan, which coldly stated that the stock could not meet its security regulations. Indiana ordered that the stock be sold only in zoo-share lots. Said Indiana Securities Commissioner Kenneth Weddle: "The stock definitely is a speculation so far. . . . Therefore we'll limit the sale to those who can afford to take the risk...
...Senator Taylor's colleagues still had their complex. Immediately after his speech, the Senate voted down a proposal to hike its salary 33%, even denied itself $2,500 a year for extra expenses...