Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic advisers have been warning him that full-blown inflation is on the way. The warning had been sounded many times, and at last the President was ready to hear it. Paunchy Price Boss Leon Henderson estimated that living costs, up 15% since World War II began, will rise at least 23% more this year unless drastic steps are taken...
...labor-wage policy, amounting to an unofficial ceiling on wages, will stop wage increases except in cases of actual hardship, or if the cost of living rises. (But the President figures that, with prices frozen, the cost of living will not rise...
...Negroes, at first, were delighted. When they took another look, they began screaming "Nazi attitude," "insult," "a definite straddle." The reason was plain as a battleship: new rule or no, Negroes still cannot rise above a noncom, still must train and serve in segregated groups...
Production Off. TIME'S Index eased to 171.6 (estimated) in the April 4 week. Final figure for the preceding week was 172.0. A rise in steel output to an alltime peak was offset by lower miscellaneous freight loadings...
...Since wages cannot be frozen under present law, what will happen to a business whose labor costs rise before a new law is passed and labor prices frozen (as they must soon be, if a universal price ceiling is to continue...