Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best match of the day, the Blue's first doubles team of Cranston and Dick Raskind edged Captain Alex Haegler and Brooks Harris 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. The steady play of Cranston and Raskind offset the sporadically brilliant tennis of the New England Intercollegiate doubles champions...
...base of the prosperity was the greatest personal income of all time. A striking example came from the auto industry, where the average weekly pay of General Motors Corp. employees in the U.S. reached an alltime high of $103.79. Rising paychecks were not being offset by rising prices; the national cost-of-living index has not changed for four months. From their record income, consumers were spending more than ever before, spreading prosperity almost everywhere in the land. In Texas, where retail sales are running about 18% above last year, the University of Texas' Bureau of Business Research reported...
...month brought slight rises in rental and fuel costs, but they were offset by price cuts in clothing, house furnishings and automobiles. The steady price level meant that the average factory worker could buy more: weekly take-home pay in March reached a record $69.47 (for a man with three dependents), up about 75(-f from February...
Cost-of-living pay boosts are as important in 1955 employment contracts as were yellow-dog agreements in 1905. They even influence minimum wage laws. If Secretary of Labor James Mitchell wins congressional favor for his $.90 an hour minimum wage, the increase would just offset the inflation during the five years since $.75 became standard. In fact, booming prices have washed out every minimum wage gain since the original Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set wages at $.40 an hour...
...principals offset one another very well. Belafonte. singing folk songs and spirituals, is vivid and intense, with an appeal perhaps less vocal than personal, while the Champions display notable lightness and ease. If. in mass-audience terms, Belafonte is the more impressive, he is the less accomplished; and even on the score of personality. Marge Champion's delightful perkiness constitutes the evening's happiest note...