Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This doctrine was enunciated last week when WLB denied a general wage increase to 2,750 employes of General Cable Corp. Grounds: their pay is not "substandard and has already been upped at least 15% in the past 16 months-more than enough to cover the rise in the cost of living. A similar decision was handed down two weeks ago in denying a raise to 1,200 Remington Rand workers, but without any such clear explanation of "uniform and universal application...
...people. This is the only industry whose major raw-material costs have been left completely out of control (except as the Government can keep the prices of a few items down by threatening to unload some of its surplus holdings). With selling prices tied tight and costs free to rise, food processors, wholesalers, brokers and retailers have been squeezed against OPA ceilings...
...July), the fallow $163 billions will take two years to spend. His point: Congress stands to lose control of spending, because the unspent balances amount to blanket appropriations; taking into account taxes, war appropriations and non-defense spending, it is inevitable that the Federal debt will rise from the present $80 billions to more than $200 billions...
...them, knocked down nine planes, lost only one. Again, Australia's defenders sent up no shouts of victory. Pared down to a minimum of equipment, they feared the implications of the big raid. It must mean that Japanese air strength in the South Pacific was on the rise. And on the future they looked with a strange, foreboding pleasure: there was going to be a fight on MacArthur's front, after...
...production zoomed to an alltime high in the Aug. i week, and TIME'S index hit 180.0 (estimated). 1.6 points above the preceding week's final figure. Main reason for the rise was a big jump in power production, especially in the Southern and Pacific Coast areas...