Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times Joe offered to cut his original demands down to a 44-hour week, stuck for a 30% pay rise. He did not want a strike; he said so. But he shouted: "A ship's crew including captain, engineer and all the officers would still average less than 75? an hour. I pay a sitter more than that to watch my baby." The owners, who gave the N.M.U. a $45 a month raise last October on W.L.B. orders, were not moved...
...shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...
...wangled a good contract. He got control of an established medical and hospital insurance fund, levied ori payrolls, and previously controlled by the operators. But they had offered that to him, too. He got the fashionable 18½?-an-hour pay rise. The mine owners had been willing to go a cent higher. He had gotten $100 vacation pay. The operators had offered him the same figure...
...With Pepsodent. Pepsodent's rise was closely watched by Lever Bros. In 1944 Lever Bros, decided to buy, paying out $15,000,000 for Pepsodent. Along with it they got Chuck Luckman. He got $1,500,000 (after taxes) for his stock...
...concluded Mr. Voorhees: "It is clear that wage rises have greatly exceeded the production required to offset them and hence must be covered in an abnormal price rise. But the first abnormal wage and price rise starts a wave of other increases. You can see it coming today in thousands of items. And then where are we? We are on our way to the final squeeze by the customer-for the customer always has his own ceiling price...