Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame? United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis and Northern operators had agreed on a new wage scale: $7 a day (up from $6). This caused neither of them any pain, for the union got a pay rise and it cost the Northern operators nothing, since under the Guffey Coal Act their increased labor cost would be passed along to the public as part of the Government-fixed price of coal...
...picture, as it tries to be, nor as trite as it very well might be. It is the most recent of a long series of adaptations from Jack London's novels, all of which have been good blood-and-thunder pictures, but none of which have been able to rise above the essentially hackneyed character of the plot...
...Tuckerman were the best Yardling performers of a year ago. Sargent is on probation, and Tuckerman was not able to report until a couple of days ago. Another good Sophomore Charley Mulcahy. He is still ineligible this spring, but this less has been compensated for by the rise of Bill Allis, another second year man who did not play as a Freshman...
Clarifying this point the Wall Street Journal estimated that the net cost of the wage rise this year to U.S. Steel (gross cost: $62,000,000) would be only $23,560,000 after allowing for tax savings; to Bethlehem (gross cost: $18,000,000), $6,840,000; to Republic (gross cost: $10,000,000), $3,800,000. Proof of how steel earnings are mounting under present capacity operations, and how big a slice the excess-profits tax is taking, was contained in Republic's first-quarter report. It showed a net profit of $8,189,967 (highest in history...
Main reasons for peak earnings: booming business has brought a 25% increase in toll calls and so many new subscribers that the year's gains may reach 1,500,000 phones-up 50% over the previous record year's rise. To handle all this added business, President Gifford announced plans to spend $400,000,000 (up almost 40% over 1940) for new equipment this year...