Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave that the good soldier's best was retreat, it seemed high time for "the works" at home. This week Harry Truman seemed to agree, summoned his economic advisers and told them to get to work on a price-and wage-control order even though they had no adequate machinery to enforce it properly. Then the President sent out a call for congressional leaders of both parties to meet at midweek for a conference "concerning the proclaiming of a national emergency and related matters...
Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine nervously pushed through the crowd and cached the head table. There before him in the seat of honor was his wage stabilizer, Cyrus Ching, sucking away placidly at his stove-sized pipe. A frown of injured dignity crossed Valentine's face, but he took a seat at the left end of the table...
Presently, round little Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle, the third member of the country's price & wage triumvirate, came waddling in. He lowered himself into a seat near Valentine and looked blandly out at the faces of a hundred reporters. The newsmen had come to find out, if they could, what kind of economic controls the U.S. was in for-hard or soft. "I'm sorry we are late," said Stabilizer Valentine, looking at DiSalle. "But the rice administrator hasn't found his way around the building yet and we picked him down one of the corridors...
...order to preserve the "newsworthiness and accuracy" of stories, Miss Roberts says she has ignored the graduate center and Radcliffe's violation of the minimum-wage law. Yesterday, in a brief story on the Labenow question, the News did not mention that anyone had protested Radcliffe's action...
University employees made their second major gain in two weeks yesterday as negotiations ended on a five percent wage increase for hourly-paid workers. At the beginning of the month, all salaried personnel went on a five-day week...