Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institutions and circumstances that artificially support inequality. In Britain's rich agglomerate of class barriers (some actual and some psychological), there is a payload to exploit. But the new policy might kick back in Labor's face by alienating middle-class and upper working class votes. where wage differentials are much prized...
...conditioned, glass-enclosed porch of a farmhouse on the old battlefield's edge, a little boy spilled his toy soldiers to the floor, arranged them into armies before the rain-splattered windows. As his grandfather watched, eight-year-old David Eisenhower proceeded to wage the Battle of Gettysburg, ended 93 years before as the rain fell on the blood-drenched field and on Lee's army, in retreat toward the Potomac. Former General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower gave young David no professional advice. Cracked Press Secretary Jim Hagerty: "The President lets David fight his own battles...
...wage theories of big-league baseball players have always been as uncomplicated as the appetite of Oliver Twist. What they want is more. What they will get, announced Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick last week, is exactly that. For the privilege of broadcasting the next five years All-Star and World Series games on radio and television, NBC has promised to pay a whopping $16,250,000. And, since 60% of the profits is already earmarked for the nine-year-old Annuity and Insurance Plan, retirement benefits for retired baseballers may soon jump to $300, perhaps as high...
Most steelmen also appeared unconcerned. Industry reports put current steel inventories at close to 18 million tons, although it is unevenly distributed. Steelmakers, who have worried about the effects of a big price boost to pay for a wage increase, might well feel that users would swallow the boost more easily with lower stocks on hand. Some small steel companies unaffected by the strike had already raised prices from $6 to $16 a ton; a short breathing spell would help smooth the ground for an industry-wide boost later...
...canny angle. In return for building the new tankers in the U.S., he wanted permission from the Government to transfer ten of his war-surplus tankers plus another vessel, most of them bought from the U.S., to foreign registry. Running under foreign regulations and paying low foreign wage rates automatically reduces operating costs by as much as 50%, and increases the value of each tanker by approximately...