Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formula for Future. Reasoned WLB: the real wartime increase in living costs started at the beginning of 1941, reached 15% by the time the President announced his anti-inflation program in April. Therefore U.S. workmen should have had a 15% pay rise in that period to maintain their standard of living. But only that period should be considered; for what has happened since, only workers at substandard wages can ask relief...
...agreed to pay the extra costs of taking gasoline to the East Coast by rail instead of tanker. This will enable Henderson to cancel a 2½?-a-gallon rise in East Coast prices, batten down his ceiling where it had already sprung a leak...
...turnover in liquor stores has held up to the regular winter levels and at times has been comparable to the rush sales during a good football weekend. Moreover, summer students have lost none of their taste for ice-cold beer. The cafes serving this beverage also report a considerable rise in women customers...
Several incidents over the week-end gave rise to anger among men in the University, and excited knots of students gathered on street corners late Saturday night...
...Savings Stamps more convenient for the average undergraduate. Stamps will be on sale Thursday at the noon and evening meals in Adams, Eliot, Leverett, and Winthrop Houses, and Tuesdays in Dunster, Kirkland, and Lowell. Adams House, which began its sales independently in April, has noted an almost unbroken rise in the amount of stamps sold each week. By last Thursday nearly $500 worth had been disposed of. This achievement was made without any soliciting, and the plan in operation there is substantially that to be introduced in the other Houses...