Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal laws, including the draft, apply with pertinent exceptions, notably the minimum wage laws. ¶ Courts are locally appointed; appeals go to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals and then the Supreme Court in Washington...
...rate of 63.8%, a little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects to hike prices to cover the automatic wage increase going into effect on July 1. Consensus: probably...
Teaching standards in the South are also below the national average. Because there are fewer teachers' colleges or even colleges, there are fewer teachers. This says nothing of the low wage scale; all wages in the south are low and the teacher's is hardly an exception. The lack of progress in a child is not necessarily due to poor teaching, for the social climate may also contribute to the lack of respect for academic subjects...
...than 7,100,000 tons of steel production this year, against 2,200,000 tons only four years ago. But in the fine print, not all was so rosy. He was significantly silent on last year's harvest and this year's crop prospects. He regretted "excessive wage increases" in 1956 but denied that that year had been one of "reckless advance." He admitted that a retrenchment had followed, but for those who weary of such economic jargon as saucering out of recession, Liu had a classic new Communist equivalent to offer: there had been, he said...
...gone up so fast, and why does industry find it so hard to cut them? Last week Federal Reserve Economist Murray Wernick gave as his reason the fact that industry has exaggerated the gains in productivity credited to production-line workers. These so-called gains form the basis for wage boosts, and also lead industry to exaggerate the wages it can give without increasing costs...