Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 116.8 a year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices, factory workers' average real wages actually shrank by nearly 1% from August 1956 to August 1957 despite an increase of $2 a week in take-home pay. And the U.S. inflation record, measured against the global scale (see chart), was moderate indeed...
...Cordiner Report calls for the abandonment of the "Methuselah" system of granting pay increases on the basis of seniority and time-in grade, and substituting a scale that would offer increased rewards to the skilled, productive, and responsible. They suggest that these pay increases go into effect only with non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, those whom the government feels have a large enough stake in the military to make it a career. The Plan would also bring the salaries of civilian technical employees of the military closer to the standards of private industry, and give recruits, especially those with...
This idea was started last year on a much smaller scale, with only 20 forced commuters in the Class of 1960, less than one-fourth of this year's number...
Such a force will probably be insufficient to cope with anything on even a medium scale, and there is no reason to expect our allies to be able to back us up immediately. Even if we had a sufficient number of men ready to move, we would not have and have not for years had adequate transportation facilities...
...loot. That's for the loot." His smile reminded us of the coal miners' song, "Keep Your Hand Upon the Dollar, and Your Eye Upon the Scale...