Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India's. An agricultural country, Pakistan does not feed herself. Her population is expanding so rapidly, through the influx of Moslem refugees from India and through inadequate methods of birth control, that people in Karachi fight over space in the street to lie down at night. While the top wage for a unionized laborer is 60 cents a day, it takes friends and bribes to get these jobs. Even those who do work must act as black marketeers, procurers and smugglers to feed their families. A radical program of land reform that would eliminate Pakistan's large and absentee holdings...
...revenge. Witte gave up all of his outside income-his tutoring, his wife's housework, his few shares of stock in Royal Dutch Shell. Last week all that he earned was his salary. "Mistakes," proclaimed Witte triumphantly, "are thus impossible. As assistant bookkeeper, I figure out the wage tax myself." No generous tax collector will punish him again...
...cent of the current total--so that the blame cannot rest entirely on Furcolo's shoulders. Furthermore, Gibbons has shown reactionary tendencies in his voting record in the state General Court. He opposed the establishment of a state Fair Employment Practices Commission and voted against raising the minimum wage on four separate occasions...
...adjusted rate of $357.5 billion from $356.1 billion in August. This third consecutive record-breaking month made certain that 1958 would surpass 1957. For the first nine months of 1958 personal income has run at the rate of $351.6 billion, v. a rate of only $347.5 billion in 1957. Wage and salary disbursements in September rose $40 million to a rate of $239.1 billion...
...rise in productivity is vital because it helps offset rising labor costs, a big push behind inflation. So far, productivity is running ahead of 1958 wage hikes; autoworkers settled last month for more moderate terms than in recent years (4% wage rise for Ford). The cost of the new contracts has already been written into 1959 car prices. Said Frederic G. Donner, chairman of General Motors, in Manhattan last week: "I think it's fair to say that the contract, as we have signed it, would not require any further adjustment in prices...