Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minimum Wage Hike Backed...
...troubled world, the U.S. had reason to be thankful. In the midst of hunger and want it knew unequaled prosperity. The year's harvest was the biggest in history. With few exceptions, everyone who wanted a job had one. Labor got a third round of wage increases, and strikes were at a postwar low. Prices inched upward and everyone worried, complained, and talked about them. But the U.S. citizen was earning more actual buying power than ever before. He also managed to save some money (personal savings were up $4.9 billion over 1947). The year's crop...
...wage earners, a Canadian Pacific telegrapher named Alex Nudelman summed up the mood of his 12½ million countrymen: "We've been so used to good times, it's this coming back to normal that hurts. I'm no pessimist, but I don't think that 1949 is going...
...fought, not only by T.W.A., but by the American Export (steamship) Lines, Inc. American Export started American Overseas in 1937 to buck Pan Am, which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned as chairman of American Overseas to clear his decks for action...
...first press conference Bennett said he did not feel at all "squeezed" by big business. He cagily avoided committing himself on prices, wage increases and labor unions. But he let it be known that he gets along with his help. Said he: "The man who sweeps out the plant still calls me Wallace...