Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School curricula during the new term takes into account the present world crisis by introducing a course in Mobilization Problems to deal with legal questions arising out of production, price, and wage controls, government procurement, and manpower...
...before it nothing less than a reappraisal of basic U.S. attitudes and policies in world affairs. Events-Korea, the U.N. mess, Eisenhower's electrifying trip through Europe, the wage & price freeze-have overtaken the old policies and outrun the old pace of U.S. action. In a sense, the NSC is considering whether to advise Truman to adopt consciously, officially and essentially the broad policy to which he has already committed the U.S. by piecemeal actions...
...price & wage freeze, for instance, is an action that fits only with a policy of all-out mobilization for all-out struggle. So is Korea. So is the U.S. position in the U.N. debate. So is the decision to send large U.S. forces to Europe. Out of step with these actions are many other aspects of U.S. policy, e.g., last week's statement that the U.S. still does not intend to veto Communist China's admission to U.N. (see INTERNATIONAL...
...whole U.S. knew the controls were coming. What held them up was one last wrangle over wages. Congress had decreed in the Defense Production Act that if prices went under control, wages would have to be controlled too. But the three labor members of Cyrus Ching's Wage Stabilization Board balked at putting their names to a wage-freeze order; they could hardly face the union rank & file again if they had a hand in initiating one. Cyrus Ching, a man of overabundant patience, laid the problem before his boss, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston; Johnston, under pressure from above...
Finally, one afternoon last week, the Government was ready to bob the cat's tail. Ten minutes before a scheduled press conference was to begin, Johnston handed the wage order to Cyrus Ching, who hardly had time to skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price...