Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Again. The railroads, piling up their biggest surpluses in two decades, had agreed without fuss to meet the 8? rise for the "non-ops" without asking for rate increases. But there was one cold fact which would send them scurrying to the ICC with a demand for higher freight rates: a rise in the price of coal...
...this week such a rise seemed imminent. How much of a rise it would be depended on how much of a pay increase John L. Lewis' miners get. The War Labor Board seemed almost certain to take some action on the U.M.W. contract with Illinois mine operators before the miners' Oct. 31 strike deadline. If WLB approved the contract as is, Illinois miners would get an additional $2 a day, and almost all other mine operators would virtually be compelled to follow suit. WLB might order a smaller increase, but some upping of the pay scale seemed certain...
...rose 22.5% between September 1939, and August 1943, the weekly take-home earnings of factory workers in 90 representative industries rose 76%. To this, labor has a double-barreled reply: 1) food has risen far beyond 22.5%; 2 ) the average weekly take-home pay, even considering the phenomenal percentage rise...
...spent and unconsidered Earth The Cities rise again...
...Father] was hiding in a clump of bushes . . . much as if he were in a duck blind. . . . Every few minutes he would rise slowly on his knees and, bringing his eyes just above the tops of the plants, peer slyly down the road...