Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great union objection to incentive pay-that it causes a speed-up with no commensurate rise in worker earnings and eventually unfair time-study revision by management-Murray's union and management feel they have the answer in the five-man time-study committee. Wage increases are tied directly to production increases and on all time-study questions, the committee's word is final. Neither the local union nor management can overrule it. The union is well content. Three weeks ago it signed a contract to continue the incentive plan until Jan. 1, to renew it then...
...with the rejection of the League and the rise of the "red menace" the New Republic lost 40% of its circulation. Branded as Socialistic, Communistic and pinko, the New Republic has not enjoyed an easy acceptance by the great reading public. Yet it has not done so badly...
...More black-market meat (as packers refused to buy cattle at the cattlemen's price, black-market dealers snapped it up; the rise in beef points broadened their retail market...
...rise in food prices was matched by the rise in the price of clothing-up 400% to 500%. The cost of local medicines had skyrocketed, the prices of foreign drugs had risen 1,600%. A small class of manufacturers and profiteers was waxing rich, but the wages of white-dhotied workers and of professional people had not registered increases comparable to the rise in the cost of living...
More & more, in Stewart's opinion, newspapers are striving not merely to present unrelated facts to their readers but also to draw the line between good & evil. Stewart's examples of this trend: the rise of the trail-blazing newspaper columnists, who "helped the reader get his own bearings"; the birth of PM, dedicated to opinionated reporting. And even the Times, Stewart points out, "would not now pretend to be neutral about the Nazis...