Word: spiralling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Zelomek believed the Government could halt the inflationary spiral with its present controls (inventory pools, priorities, taxation of consumer incomes, OPACS price ceilings, etc.). Only trouble was that some of the measures (like ceilings on wages and farm prices) were political dynamite. Problem: would the Government have the guts? Burly Leon Henderson told the delegates the Government would. He said that OPACS was ready to crack down on any situation, including wages, that got out of line. (Last week he voiced some opposition to railroad labor's demand for a 30% raise.) Getting down to fundamentals, he even threatened...
...Ministry of Justice spokesman denied that Marshal Petain's new decree was dictated by religious considerations, insisted it was one more effort to halt the downward spiral of France's birth rate...
...wage and strike situation grew increasingly acute, threatening to start an inflationary wage and price spiral...
...Delaware Federal court last week, Judge John Biggs Jr. stared thoughtfully at a demonstration of spiral waves, "croquignole" waves, the grotesque spindles, rolls, clamps and gadgets used in 83,000 U. S. beauty shops to help straight-haired women outwit nature. If the display looked frivolous, the lawsuit behind it was not: at stake was some...
Chief argument of management against raises now is that they will hasten the inflationary spiral of rising prices and costs, leave labor's real wages lower, or no better, than before. But Murray has run his own plough around the field of economics and is convinced that labor could get a bigger share of profits now, and could do so without disturbing present prices and costs. He cries shame over a Social Security report that 10,000,000 workers in private industry earned less than $500 apiece in 1937 (highest wage year between...