Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stirred up by the President's message, little action was possible. Republicans and Democrats alike knew that the stands they took on anti-inflationary measures might well decide the 1948 elections. Most Democrats, hoping that the President had been politically smart in suggesting a return to rationing and wage-price ceilings, kept cannily quiet. Many Republicans cried "Foul." Said Senator Robert Taft: "This is the police state condemned by the President himself only a month ago. This is the end of economic freedom." Other Republicans rebuked Candidate Taft for seeming to represent himself as spokesman for the party...
...appreciation. The dissenters simply insist that the expressed position of the student bodies at the College and the major graduate schools against the plaque-scholarship combination should properly carry great weight as Alumni make up their minds. It is on this basis that the proponents of a Memorial Center wage their campaign...
...Schuman faces exactly the same problems that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions...
...wage is 24 cents better than anything students have been able to get through the Office for similar work in the past, but the hours are not the best. The railroads do their shoveling whenever the snow falls, no matter what the hour...
...U.A.W., with its leadership unified for the first time since it was organized in 1934, would lose its militancy. In fact, it might well become more rambunctious than ever. Walter Reuther lost no time in warning the auto industry that it must cut prices or face another round of wage demands...