Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They say they want other free nations to resist aggression, said he, "but they don't want us to send any troops to help. They want us to get out of Korea-but they urge us to wage an aggressive war against China. They say it will provoke Russia to attack if we send troops to Europe-but they are sure Russia won't be provoked if we carry the war to China.They say they want to crush Communism —and yet they want us to go back into our shell, and let the rest of the world...
...long and short of it is they want defenses without spending the money; they want us to wage war without an army; they want us to have victory without out taking any risks, and they want us to try to run the whole world and run it without any friends...
Baseball got its first orders last week from Washington's economic mobilizers. Digging out an old regulation of the Wage Stabilization Board, WSB lawyers decided that St. Louis Outfielder Stan Musial may not pocket the $35,000 wage boost (up from logo's $50,000) which would have made him the third-highest salaried player in the game,* the highest salaried in National League history. No one in baseball, the WSB explained, may get a salary higher than the highest paid by his club...
...national emergency declared by President Truman, which is "a phony"; ¶The defense program, wage & price stabilization, the Taft-Hartley Act, the Marshall Plan...
Baseball player salaries were placed under government wage controls yesterday. The ruling by the Wage Stabilization Board put a ceiling over the salaries of the top-priced stars at the 1950 level...