Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million members of the United Auto Workers Union (C.I.O.) got on their escalator last week and rode up to another 1?-an-hour increase in pay. A new rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index called for an automatic increase which will add $20 million a year to the automobile industry's wage bill. On Oct. 15, the BLS index stood at a record-high 187.8 (the 1935-39 average is 100), an increase of .7% since Sept. 15. The automatic rise will add to the pressure for another round of wage increases...
...000th?" Ranezay nodded, and the porter set down his bags. "I got to shake your hand," he said. The cab driver who drove them to St. Patrick's Cathedral declared proudly: "I'm going to put a sign in the back that the i, 000,000th rode here." At St. Patrick's, the Ranezays knelt and gave thanks...
Thus they rode, for 16 hours more. At Gallup, N.Mex., a new ordeal awaited the Chees. Without rest or food from 10 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, they sat on stiff-backed chairs in the sheriff's office while an autopsy was performed on the baby. Finally they were released to return to their hogans at Manuelito, 13 miles away. But three more days passed before papers arrived from "Washin-tone" (i.e., Salt Lake City) which allowed them to bury their child...
Even after last week's price break, steer prices in Chicago stayed above OPS ceilings. Normally heavy buyers rode around the cattle pens, casting covetous eyes at prize steers (see cut) but buying few. The only way packers can legally buy steers is by averaging down the high prices with cheaper animals such as cows. Cows now account for 50% of the packers' kill, v. 25% in normal times. Even so, slaughtering has been running some 20% below last year, because there are not enough cheap animals to balance the high-priced steers. Result: the big packers...
...regaled with tall ranch tales. One of the last of the costumed, showman politicians, he shaded his cat eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails and rode like hell." He once astonished a Washington redcap by demanding: "Hell, boy, where's the watering hole?" When President Roosevelt wanted him to nominate for a Washington job a citizen of South Dakota who was qualified both as a banker and a lawyer, Berry wired back that he didn...