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Word: wage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Pay Now, Buy Later | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A Year of Discovery | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Post-Christmas Package | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business in 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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