Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salute of "Eh, brother?" they retorted: "Down with Deakin," or "We're not fighting the government but we want our rights. Where's our freedom now?" In 1941, they had bartered a little freedom for a little more "security": in return for a guaranteed minimum weekly wage, they had accepted a penalty clause. Now the clause chafed. It had required only a small flash to set off a rebellion...
...increase in the minimum wage from 40? to 75? an hour...
...late Jules S. Bache, longtime Dome Mines president. Michel, trustee of the estate, had sold the stock to pay estate taxes. He had not foreseen the dividend slash (it was forced by a rise in Canada's cost-of-living index, to which the company's wage scale is tied). Obviously, said Michel, after what had happened the decent thing was to take back the stock. That was just what he had done...
...most bullish influence was the growing certainty that production and profits would not be hamstrung by a rash of strikes. Following the lead of General Motors (TIME, June 7), industry was busily granting a third round of wage increases. General Electric, which had cut prices and tried to hold the line, gave up-and handed out a 9 to 15? an hour raise. Firestone Tire & Rubber settled for 11?, United Aircraft for 10 to 20?. The Aluminum Co. of America offered 9 to 13?. Chrysler had followed G.M.'s lead, and now Kaiser-Frazer came across with 14.4?; Briggs...
...year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give a damn about the money. I won't get any of it, anyhow. I'd have stayed if they had just shoved that commercial over to Parsons...