Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have said so frequently-and I do not know how to say more clearly and unequivocally than I have already said-that I am opposed to wage reductions. ... If we want to restore prosperity, we must increase, not decrease, that purchasing power...
...three funnels-the debris, good scrap, lashed to the deck for the voyage. While reporters tramped through three years of dust on a last inspection trip, careless blacksmiths started a small fire. Someone had recently stolen two big paintings. Then her imported seamen began negotiating for the same wage as the U. S. crew, delayed her last departure from...
...Last week, while 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio was demanding more than the $25,000 offered him to play baseball for less than six months this year, British soccer players were engaged in a British version of the American holdout. With businesslike dignity they demanded that their minimum wage be raised from ?4 to ?5 ($25) a week and their maximum from...
...professional is expected to play two bruising games a week for eight months of the year, is traded from one club to another (sometimes for as much as ?10,000), may be a hero to 90,000 cheering spectators but can hope for nothing more than his standardized weekly wage...
...most obvious aspects of saving money is minimizing living expenses while commanding as high a wage as possible. The cheapest place to live is usually at home, even if you pay for board and laundry as much as five or six dollars a week. Away from home, twelve to fifteen dollars will be necessary...