Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some $75,000,000 per year. Biggest increase went to common laborers, such as those whose basic pay has been 47? per hour, will now be 52½?. U. S. Steel's increase was based on the cost of living as of July 15, 1936, anticipated a 10% rise in that cost. If the rise, as measured by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, should go to 15%, Big Steel's men would automatically receive another 5% raise. If the cost of living should go down, their pay would go down...
...Blue (words & music by Howard Lindsay, Russel Grouse & Cole Porter; Vinton Freedley, producer). This first brand-new star to rise in Broadway's 1936-37 musicomedy firmament was judged by most observers to be of the second magnitude. In terms of a college musical show, the libretto wrestles with the story of a nation-wide search for a girl with a waffle-iron burn on her fundament. She has been lost since 1918, approximately the year in which Messrs. Lindsay's & Grouse's puns, concerning souls and heels and counterfeiters who forge ahead, lost their bloom. Also...
...venture. Last week he noted that the number of employes in the first nine months of 1936 averaged 216,000 compared to 184,000 in the same period last year. Total payrolls for the period showed a much sharper increase (from $184,000,000 to $242,000,000). This rise was not due to higher wages (in both periods the average rate was 73? per hour) but to longer hours. Last year the average U. S. Steel employe was working less than 145 hours per month, this year nearly 170 hours...
...letter to his 34,500 stockholders. This year, he declared, Sears would probably do a $500,000,000 business, a record. Only four years ago total sales were $276,000. To handle this tremendous increase in volume Sears had to carry bigger inventories, more accounts receivable. The rise in these two items alone required $60,000,000 of additional working capital, a sum provided part by bank loans, part by profits. In the normal course, wrote President Wood, the bank loans would have been paid off out of earnings, thus perpetuating the Sears tradition of financing its own growth...
Stamping out a threatened rise of heresy, Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History and official Harvard historian, early this week requested the Student Union to change the name of one of its sub-committees from Campus to Yard Questions...