Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declaration in Khrushchev's famed 20th Party Congress speech on Feb. 24, 1956 that it was "precisely Beria" who "fabricated" the charges against the Zhdanovites. Within a year after Beria's death, Malenkov's power had so declined that Khrushchev or his henchmen were able to push through the first public mention of the case in the U.S.S.R. Announcing the execution of former Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov in December 1954, Izvestia reported: "Abakumov framed the so-called Leningrad Case...
Macmillan was more determined than ever to push ahead with a European Free Trade Area, linked with the six-nation Common Market. "This is an opportunity which we cannot miss," said Macmillan. "It may not come again...
...once more a scramble for materials and goods sent prices soaring. Wages were slow in catching up. In fact, after General Motors set up the first automatic "annual improvement factor" increase in wage contracts in 1950, Charles E. Wilson, then G.M. president, said: "It is not primarily wages that push up prices. It is primarily prices that pull up wages." After 1952, wages began to catch up to prices, while the cost of living held steady. In the third round of inflation, which started in 1956 because of heavy business spending for expansion on top of heavy spending by Government...
...many economists, alarm over automatic wage increases and administered prices and the cost-push inflation they cause seems exaggerated. They point to the absence of factors that produce a runaway inflation, notably a shortage of goods and an excess of money. The soft spots in the economy are expected to prevent major wage increases from spreading through the entire economy, as in the past, just as the ample supply of goods is expected to check overall price boosts. Last week outgoing Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Byrd committee probing Administration fiscal policies that the Administration's tight-money...
Into the booming foreign-car sales race Italy's Fiat last week rolled its 116-in.-long, two-passenger "New 500" model, which it expects to start exporting to the U.S. this autumn. Fiat set an $800 price tag on the 500, hopes to accelerate its opening sales push in the U.S. (TIME, April 22), which sold 1,200 standard Fiats in the first two months...