Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the famed Little Steel formula, raises have been slow and gradual, while the cost of living, by most studies, has shown a substantial jump. If WLB now recommends smashing the Little Steel formula, thousands of U.S. workers (and votes) would, in effect, get a pre-Election Day promise of a wage raise...
Loose at the Seams. A persistent lateral stretching of the fighting front is a painful business for an enemy holding undermanned positions. In the east, the Russians had pulled the Germans apart at the seams by extending the active front from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created...
...wealth on the outside-like George Washington, who was rich in land, goods and slaves, or General John McClellan, who was president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Co., or General Nelson A. Miles, who married money. Most of the makers of U.S. military history have died just one jump ahead of poverty...
...jump between May and June was caused partly by heavy mid-year payments of interest and dividends. Federal interest payments, up 20% over last year, and higher transportation-industry pay rolls together accounted for one-fifth of the rise over June 1943. But the biggest factor (two-fifths of the 10% increase) was the continued rise in military payments-in pay to Army and Navy personnel, allowances to dependents and mustering-out pay. As a result, factory payrolls and net farm-operating income, which from June 1941 to June 1943 accounted for nearly half the individual income rise, were...
...fill this void. Wednesday evenings at 7:30 o'clock, Cain's "Cain Is Able" pay the keep for half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music is apt at times to stray a little afield, but generally speaking pure improvisation predominates. Collectors are invited to come up to the station Tuesday evenings and put on a program featuring their own favorite; any Harvard men interested in participating...