Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South should be given some time to catch up on social progress, he continued, and federal minimum wage legislation should contribute toward a narrowing of the gap between the rates of textile workers' pay in the north and south...
...declared that perhaps the greatest hope for this program lies in a rise of productivity in the South to offset the Eigher wage rates in New England...
...office of Acting Defense Mobilizer John Steelman to try once more to work out a settlement. The odds, of course, were now heavily weighted in favor of the steelworkers. If management refused to accept the workers' demands, the Government-operated plants could always agree to accept wage increases proposed by the Government...
...Latin America, democracy has special meanings. In Juan Perón's Argentina, democracy is a boss and his wife on a balcony plus "social justice" (wage rises, free cakes at Christmas, old-age benefits) for all who bow down to them. In some of the Andean countries, democracy tends to be government by a majority of the white minority. Under the Honduran formula, ex-Dictator "Bucho" Carías once explained, "Personal safety is as important as personal liberty." Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, last of the oldfashioned, "monster-type" dictators, calls his regime in the Dominican Republic "freedom...
Penetrating Trickle. The Bulletin is quick to print such unpleasant facts or wage a battle for what it considers journalistic or scientific freedom. When the U.S., a year ago, slapped restrictions on the foreign circulation of U.S. technical journals, the Bulletin was in the forefront of the fight that got the order repealed. The Bulletin is well aware that the Russians read it to try to chart U.S. military and political thinking on the bomb. But Editor Rabinowitch thinks that the U.S. also gains by circulating the magazine in Russia. "It may be but a trickle of fresh water penetrating...