Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even proposed wage increases of that size no longer always win union acceptance. Ironworkers in St. Louis have been on strike for six weeks against an employer offer to lift their wage-and-benefit package from $6.03 to $9.03 an hour over the next five years. The union likes the money, but does not want to sign any contract that will bind it for more than three years...
ITEM: In Honolulu, the Young Americans for Freedom organizes an "emergency grape lift" by jet from the mainland, inviting "all of those starved for the sight of a California grape to come to the airport...
...South Vietnamese in the various components of the armed forces, with American logistics, air lift and air support, should be able, if they have the will, to prevent the imposition by force of a Hanoi-controlled regime. If they lack a sense or a sufficiency of national purpose, we can never force it on them...
...least dented. Most analysts agree that the market is oversold. Mutual funds harbor some $4.6 billion-or nearly 9% of their assets-in cash and 30-to-90-day Treasury bills. Brokerage houses hold about $6 billion in uncommitted margin money. That potential purchasing power could provide a lift to the market, but investors are awaiting signs of a loosening of credit. The signs may be a long time coming. Last week Thomas O. Waage, vice president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, summed up: "Already some participants in financial markets are bleeding, and there will be more...
...that growth may stop entirely during the summer. The volume of retail sales has been sluggish for a year, and un employment, still a low 3.5%, is up slightly from 3.3% earlier this year. Of the three principal forces in the economy, two have lost most of their lift. Government spending and consumer spending are relatively flat; only businessmen's extremely large capital in vestments are keeping the economy expanding...