Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other good news came from Pittsburgh. A strike threat in U.S. Steel was removed at last when the company signed a new contract giving C.I.O. workers a 10?-an-hour increase, following announcement of a 10? wage rise at both National Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel...
...started selling prints to department stores at $5 apiece. Most proudly pushed of his stock of prints was a figure of a Negro and a mule entitled Plowing, by Tom Benton, who, with 25 other U.S. artists, had agreed to use Lewenthal as an agent. The A.A.A.'s rise from a one-desk agency to a $500,000-a-year business drove many a frock-coated Manhattan gallery director furiously to think. Behind that rocketing rise lay one of the ablest promotion and distribution jobs the U.S. art world has seen...
...laid down that basic principle to the inner circle of his advisers. Those months have seen the birth and death of the National Defense Advisory Commission, set up in May 1940 with an eye as much to keeping prices down as to getting armament up. They have seen the rise and eclipse of OPM, set up to still public clamor when NDAC did not seem to be delivering fast enough...
Anticipating a spring rise in spirits and excess of energy among the inhabitants of the Yard, the Freshman proctors called informal meetings of their charges last night in an effort to remind them of the parietal rules...
Since department stores, like railroads, have a relatively inflexible overhead, their profits tend to rise faster than their sales. In the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 1941, Gimbel Brothers upped earnings 67% on an 8% sales gain; Associated Dry Goods lifted profits 15% while sales rose 3%. Last week Marshall Field paid twice its usual dividend; Bloomingdale also increased its payment...