Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase was not on a "trickledown" from the top basis. One of the biggest jumps was in consumer spending, where the reading rose $6 billion above the rate of the preceding three-month period. Higher wage and salary payments gave spending its biggest push, aided by a $1 billion drop in the rate of savings...
...subject chosen for debate was rotund Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard's program to control West Germany's economic boom and accompanying wage-price spiral. The debate took the form of a few unctuous commonplaces. Said one of the 150 West Berliners in the audience: "They come to us up here and squabble about their own wealth...
...record with which Mayor Hynes faces these attacks has its weaknesses. The tax rate has climbed sharply, but without bringing substantial wage increases to city workers. By emphasizing long-range planning during this period, however, Hynes has made the city more attractive to industry and increased employment. He has completed a major reorganization of the city government, and increased the efficiency of city services. Following a man who, for several months, governed Boston from jail (ex-Mayor Curley, who now supports Powers), Hynes has radically changed the atmosphere at City Hall...
...Twins still work closely with Réaltiés' tightly knit staff of 47, whose pay (average salary: $430 a month) is double the prevailing French journalistic wage. The publishers hold a daily 6 p.m. editorial conference with Editor Max, seldom emerge from their cluttered third-floor office before 9 p.m. Last week the lights were burning later than usual in the massive sandstone building near the Oépra, where Réaltiés and its sister magazines are published. Max and staff were mapping their most challenging assignment yet: a wide-ranging report on life...
...whole enjoyed unusual labor peace, Westinghouse had 94 work stoppages costing 5,000,000 production man hours. Sometimes they were not Westinghouse's fault: Westinghouse was the battleground for two rival unions competing for its employees. But Westinghouse pulled some boners. Last August, on the eve of wage negotiations, Westinghouse got into a dispute over a time study at the huge East Pittsburgh plant and the men walked out. Twenty-eight other plants went out in sympathy but went back when it was agreed to negotiate the dispute along with the other issues However, this week negotiations bogged down...