Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reasons given for the increase in rates were rising costs and wage increases for dormitory employees...
...Wage Stabilization Board, which ordered a nationwide wage freeze a year ago, last week got around to making the order stick. In Detroit, a regional WSB enforcement commission found the J. D. Hedin Construction Co. guilty of paying $40,000 in over-the-ceiling wages, the first such major decision since the freeze. It found that Hedin's bricklayers got $3 an hour for working on a Veterans Administration hospital when WSB regulations allowed only $2.75. The commission ruled that Hedin must pay federal income taxes on the $40,000, and ordered the VA to deduct the sum from...
...Southwest, cattlemen wage a relentless war against mesquite, a ragged, bushlike tree. It chokes out the grazing grass, hides cattle at roundup time. Cattlemen have attacked it with fire, bulldozer and assorted chemicals. But it more than holds its own. Texas and Oklahoma alone have an estimated 71 million acres of it. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced that, after three years of intensive testing, it had a chemical that could win the mesquite war. The killer: 2,4,5-T (short for trichlorophenoxyacetic acid...
...analysis method, which graphically plots both an entire economy and its intricate interrelations, enables government and industry planners to gauge beforehand the effects of a shortage, a surplus, partial unemployment of the nation's economy, or a wage hike...
From the union came a quick reply. It has already agreed to forgo wage increases in 1952, said the T.W.U.A., and it has no objection to increasing output where better machinery is installed. T.W.U.A. pointed to an agreement signed a fortnight ago with Wyandotte Worsted Co.,under which individual work loads will be increased by close to 50% through the installation of improved machines. "If American Woolen's operations are inefficient," said T.W.U.A. Woolen-Worsted Division Chief John Chupka, "the blame could lie with management, not the union...