Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the people is not whether the rich shall be made poor, but whether or not the poor shall be made slaves. I shall enumerate several reasons why this amendment should be enacted. The gravest threat of the present exorbitant tax rate is presented to the lower-income, or wage-earning, groups. In less than two years the lowest tax rate in this nation has slithered upward to over twenty-two per cent. It will take only a short time before this trend results in a situation whereby all the gainfully employed people in the U.S. will...
Through a total of four hours of discussion during Friday and Saturday, Gorman proved that he could argue the negative to, "Resolved: That the federal government should adopt a permanent program of price and wage controls" better than any of the remaining sixty two men who took the negative side...
...confusion" in the program, but the Engineers have ordered construction firms to straighten things out; the job will be cornpleted "in an efficient manner." Considering the Air Force's hurry-up order for the bases and remoteness of the sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like...
Peron went on to tell his loyal labor following the gloomy news that they would have to get along with little or no wage increases. (He offered a formula for 40% to 80% pay rises, but these were to be based on 1949 wages, and almost all workers have had hefty pay hikes since then.) To boost farm output 20% for the export market, Peron promised his old whipping boys, the farmers, one-third more for their grain. This meant scrapping his policy of paying farmers peanuts for their crops, then selling abroad for millions to finance his lavish industrialization...
...millions of moviegoers and televiewers, in whose private lives good & evil often wage dreary, inconclusive little wars, John Wayne's constant re-enactment of the triumph of virtue is as reassuring as George Washington's face on a Series E bond. And virtue, in Wayne's case, brings just as solid returns. This year, for the second year in a row, the Motion Picture Herald poll of U.S. theater owners and exhibitors showed John Wayne the country's top box-office draw. When a breathless pressagent first called to tell him the great news, Wayne...