Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objective: the guaranteed annual wage. Though unions have talked about the G.A.W. for years, there was little real enthusiasm for it while jobs were plentiful and overtime commonplace. But now, with unemployment brushing 4,000,000, union leaders in the mass-production industries are ready for the big push...
...push was started by the C.I.O.'s International Union of Electrical Workers, which asked Westinghouse Electric Corp. to guarantee its employees 52 forty-hour weeks a year-or the equivalent in pay. Under the I.U.E. plan, Westinghouse would set aside 5% of its payroll (about 10? an hour per employee, or $12 million annually on the present union-covered payroll) until ten weeks' pay for each worker is accumulated. Laid-off workers would be paid out of the fund only after the plan was in effect for a year. In the event of heavy layoffs, Westinghouse would...
With his new buses, Caesar plans to push Greyhound's fast-growing special services such as charter buses, package express shipments and all-expense tours around the U.S. A fortnight ago, he started his first sleeping service between San Francisco and Chicago, which includes four overnight hotel stops in the fare. Price: $69.40 with a single room, $62.90 in a double room...
...atmosphere of enthusiasm and elegance, a little group of scholars continues to push ahead in the field of Byzantine studies, and to make Dumbarton Oaks one of the University's most successful and respected centers for advanced study...
Goaded by professional critics like Senator McCarthy and facing the challenge of an election year, the Administration now feels that it must actively push its program to rid the country of the Communist menace. Friday evening, Attorney General Brownell offered what he termed a "new and powerful" program of legislation. But on closer examination, it seems that the Administration has offered some innovations which are hardly new at all, and others which would only serve to undermine the foundations of personal liberty...