Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enormous social security fund (current reserves: $22 billion) really secure between the time the wage earner is nibbled and the time he begins to get his payments? Yes, reported a Congress-created advisory council on social security financing, a panel of 13 businessmen, labor leaders, university professors and insurance actuaries. Their summary: the financing of the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance system is "sound, practical and appropriate...
...lessons of 1958 did not mean that 1959 will be all beer and skittles. Wintertime unemployment is a major problem; so is a wage-price inflation. But the year showed-and Canadians understood, as demonstrated by new highs for the Toronto stock market in 1958-that the U.S. has a strong, increasingly independent neighbor to the north, whose past growth is only a hint of its future promise...
Making a mockery of the whole affair was the fact that neither the publishers nor the strikers won any ground in their struggle. Before the men walked out, the publishers offered a $7 wage boost over a two-year period, which was later turned down twice by the union members. The settlement was merely a rejiggering of the publishers' original offer: the union got a raise of $3.55 the first year, $1.75 the second, a ninth paid holiday (Columbus Day), and three days' paid sick leave. Estimated cost to the publishers: same as the $7, over-two-years...
INSTALLMENT-BUYING BOOM has lifted British economy in few months since government eliminated minimum down-payment requirements and banks started making no-collateral 5% loans to wage earners...
...Labor no longer faces drastic cuts in wage rates-and buying power-in times of recession. Equally important, the accelerating shift to the service industries from manufacturing has made overall employment more stable...