Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fascinated Democrats and dismayed conservative Republicans watched agape as Capehart judiciously steered the bill through the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee, of which he is chairman. Actually, his position was not inconsistent. The day after the Korean war began in 1950 he had proposed an immediate price-wage-rent freeze. His proposal was snubbed; controls were not imposed for seven months. In those seven months the wholesale price index rose by 15%, the consumer's index by 6⅔%. These increases, Capehart argued, left no foundation for sound controls. He fought Truman's belated program every step...
...framework is secret and personal." Salan described how he had stopped the Communists short of the Mekong River in Laos by creating hedgehog positions in the Plaine des Jarres and at Luang Prabang, reinforcing them by air: "The enemy had 40 divisions: I had twelve. I had to wage a cautious war of maneuver...
...were in the same period last year. I am sending these charts to Paris." What General Salan did not say, being a professionally reticent man, is that the unpopularity of the war back home in France-and fear of its cost in casualties and money-had forced him to wage a war of cautious maneuver, as in Laos, or of static defense, as in Hanoi...
...another letter sent earlier, Reynolds commended the HUERA for the 15 years of continuous relations it has had with of continuous relations it has had with the Univeristy. "Our employees enjoy wage and salary levels, as well as fringe benefits including pensions, equal to or better than those of similar institutions...
...Every Family." In his lifetime. Henry Ford was damned from time to time as a Communist (for his $5-a-day wage), an anarchist, an anti-Semite, a Fascist; he was praised as the greatest living American, whose diverse interests (e.g., planes, rubber growing, synthetics, early American furniture) made him seem a kind of machine-age Leonardo. Now the archives reveal for the first time what manner of man he really...