Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truro last week, the annual convention of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, drew up its demands for 1949 wages. First & foremost was a whopping general increase of $2.56 a day over the present $7.64 basic rate. There were also carefully scaled demands for men who work at the coal face. Explained one union official: "It's a new type of policy we've adopted, with emphasis on the actual production of coal at the face . . . It's all bent towards increased production for the industry...
Church of All Nations. As a fledgling minister in 1917, Oxnam was assigned to a run-down Los Angeles church with few communicants and a $15,000 debt. The square mile of his parish had 60,000 people representing 42 nationalities, and the highest juvenile delinquency rate in the city. Oxnam renamed the parish The Church of All Nations, organized youth clubs, developed a clinic with 28 doctors, let labor groups on strike meet in the church. Eventually, he built it into one of the great parishes of U.S. Methodism...
...unborn fashion magazine Kaleidoscope, publication day was a scant three months away. Ads were rolling in at $690 a page and up, and so was circulation at a charter rate of $18 a year. But at a point when most such "Projects X" would have gone through at least two dry runs, Kaleidoscope had not even produced a dummy. The publishers had not hired a single editorial staffer...
...diverse companies Hanna last year rolled up a $7.2 million net, 40% more than 1946's $5.6 million. This year the company is earning at a rate of $7.8 million...
Railroads. Thanks to a rate boost in May, the Class 1 U.S. railroads clicked off a $76.7 million net profit in July, more than double 1947's July net. For the first seven months of 1948, the roads netted $334 million, compared to $247 million in the 1947 period...