Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyed in a three-alarm fire, after which Clarence Dillon '05 offered funds for a new field house. Then on 17 January 1930, Boston papers revealed that 20 cleaning women in Widener had been dis- charged by the University. Apparently their salaries were not up to the legal minimum wage, and the University was unwilling to raise them by some two cents an hour. The Administration said, however, that the dismissal was only part of a reorganization move and had nothing to do with the added expense...
...predictable. In six short months as governor, Chandler had succeeded in treading on sensitive Kentucky toes from the Ohio River to the Big Sandy. Quickly forgetting his campaign economy promises, Happy wheedled $39 million in new taxes out of the legislature, extended state income taxes to take in wage earners making as little as $14 a week, and, perhaps most injudiciously, boosted the state levy on whisky. Rumbled one Kentucky politician: "Not many people would walk out in the yard to vote for anybody, but they'd swim the Ohio to vote against somebody. This time, they came...
...pulled out in dissatisfaction over the lack of genuine reforms in Algeria, the big guns of the Right, which favor the tough elements of Mollet's Algerian policy, fell silent. The biggest thunder on the Left came from Stalin Peace Prizewinner Pierre Cot. "A war that France cannot wage and does not want," he cried. "The only thing to do is negotiate." But Mollet's attack made its own breaks. Just in time, the government announced that 290 eastern Algerian rebels had been killed and turbaned General Si Amrouche routed in "the biggest battle of the year." Optimistic...
...Pittsburgh's Hotel William Penn one day last week and handed a sheaf of papers to Clifford Hood, president of U.S. Steel. Thus the steelmakers opened negotiations for a new contract. There was nothing new or unexpected in the union's 22 contract demands-a guaranteed annual wage, "substantial" wage increases, premium pay for weekend work-and the first session brought out no fireworks. Nevertheless the session made history. Sitting around the table were representatives not only from giant U.S. Steel but from Bethlehem and Republic as well-the Big Three which employ 60% of all steel labor...
...billion higher than repayments on old installment debts. Furthermore, FRB economists see other worrisome inflationary pressures. The overall wholesale price index shows a 1.8% rise since January, while the cost-of-living index rose .2% in April for the second monthly increase in a row, thus bringing wage increases to 1,000,000 workers with escalator contracts. Key products like lumber, structural materials and metals have all edged...