Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he got there the boss man told him "one day's labor, And he gave him only fifty...
...purchases in Britain and a promise that Premier Kosygin would soon pay him an official visit. Though Wilson could report no progress toward settling the Viet Nam war, the fact that he sent his disarmament minister to seek out Hanoi's top man in Moscow would help silence Labor's antiwar clique, which accuses him of not doing enough to halt the conflict...
...indicated his displeasure by transferring DuBay from St. John's to a Santa Monica parish as curate, at a $50-a-month cut in salary. With that, DuBay warned that if the cardinal tries to block the union, he will sue His Eminence for violating laws that protect labor organizers. Cardinal McIntyre then suspended him altogether...
Hurrying to Buy. Inflation is an international malaise (see WORLD BUSINESS) and symptoms of it are appearing all over the U.S. Last month wholesale prices climbed at an alarming annual rate of 6%. The Government's chief price expert, Commissioner Arthur Ross of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, expects prices to rise more markedly in 1966 than in 1965, when the wholesale index went up 3.4% and the consumer index 2.2%. The biggest increases will be in bills for medical care, recreation and repair services; the price of houses will rise more sharply than in recent years...
...beat further price hikes, businessmen are increasing their inventories at a pace unequaled since the Korean War: $10.1 billion a year. During January, bank credit expanded at 20% a year, double the already high rate of the past five years. Skilled labor has become so scarce that Inland Steel is trying to fill 600 job vacancies, is recruiting as far away as 400 miles from its East Chicago base. Detroit automakers are hiring unemployed Appalachia mountaineers to sweep floors -at $3 an hour. For its part, the Government has poured on more inflationary fuel: the national income accounts budget, which...