Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just got back from Indianapolis or Miami. Over the last five years, he has settled, almost alone, the disputes over union jurisdiction in America's atomic energy plants. He chairs a board which has settled over 2,000 similar conflicts in the construction industry. Between trips, Dunlop has set wage rates on the MTA and Northeast Airlines, and arbitrated similar industrial disputes almost every week...
...Harvard world, Dunlop has made an intensive study of wages, written three books and numerous articles, heads the Trade Union program at the Business School, and teaches courses in collective bargaining and wage and price policy...
...academic world with a permanent appointment at the age of thirty--the youngest man in the field of the Social Sciences to get one. Six years before he had obtained his first government job, one of a string which, by last year, had encompassed the War Labor Board, Wage Adjustment Board, and the longest tenure of any public member (20 months) on the Wage Stabilization Board, one of the most controversial and important of President Truman's Cold War economic panels. Dunlop has been officially out of the government since last March, when he received a letter from President Eisenhower...
...wrong in October 1939, when he condemned France and Britain as being aggressors and praised Hitlerite Germany as being the peace-seeking country." Dulles threw in a batch of Molotov's own 1939 quotes to make the wound saltier. Example: "It is not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war-a war for the destruction of Hitlerism camouflaged as 'a fight for democracy...
West Germany's standard of living, while far above that of East Germany, is still about 15% below that of Britain and France. Its average industrial wage of 38.8? an hour is above that of France (35.3?), but well below Britain (47?) and far below the U.S. ($1.78). The result is that German workers cannot afford to buy many of the goods they now produce for the rest of the world. Of Volkswagen's 20,000 employees, for example, only 412 drive the cars they make. Germany's per capita meat consumption last year...