Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organize, full employment, federal aid for depressed areas. At issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...
...truth is that Mr. Eisenhower is running for a second term because he wants to be President for a second term, is a willing, eager, even determined candidate and intends to wage a campaign calculated to win, not just to please or help his Republican colleagues, but because he wants to be President of the United States for another four years...
Between the Reefs. By boosting the price of money and keeping it scarce, the FRB hopes to steer the economy through the twin reefs of industrial overexpansion and wage-price inflation. The demand for loans is outstripping the supply because record levels of employment, wages, spending, business investment and construction are straining U.S. credit resources more heavily than they have been pressed since...
...above the 1947-49 level). Moreover, the upsurge, paced by bigger-than-seasonal rises in fruit and vegetable prices, promises to take another bite out of the dollar. As a result of the cost-of-living increase, 1,250,000 union workers will automatically receive 3? to 5? hourly wage raises under escalator contracts geared to the price index, thus 1) increasing the cost of the products they make, 2) encouraging higher wage demands by other workers, and 3) stoking up prices by pouring new money into the consumer market...
...center of world oil production has shifted from the U.S., where wells are going dry. the cost of land is going up and the wages of workers have risen, to the Arab area where the wells are still virgin, where land over vast spaces continues to cost nothing, and where the worker continues to receive less than a subsistence wage. Half the proved reserves of oil in the world lie beneath Arab soil. Have I made clear how great the importance of this element of strength is? So we are strong−strong not in the loudness of our voices...