Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexicans and Filipinos. Among them, for example, is Marcos Munoz, who lives in a squalid shack that he calls "something you would not let a dog enter." Another, Manuel Rivera, 52, the father of seven, works ten hours a day when he is not on strike, for the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. He is a grim man whose only hope is for his children; he feels that the vineyard owners "make an animal out of me. They might as well put a leash...
...November, just a bit away from what the Administration considers virtual full employment. Still, the U.S. does not yet have classical inflation-a sustained price rise of more than 2% a year. Industrial production is rising faster than the supply of money required to absorb it, and wage gains have stayed comfortably ahead of price increases (see chart...
...marchers are not the extremists Hughes concluded: "the extremists are those who wage war in our country's name...
...income of $35,000 tax free. Most of today's newly rich entrepreneurs use their money in a more venturesome way, but few of them live on as grand a scale as the ostentatious millionaires of the Gilded Age. In an affluent nation where almost every middle-class wage earner can own a house and a car, take a holiday abroad and educate his children well, the F. Scott Fitzgerald aphorism-"The very rich, they are different from you and me"-is not nearly as true as it once...
British Ford long had some of the world's worst labor relations: its 65,000 employees in 22 competitive unions stopped work over everything from wages to tea breaks, averaged a strike a week and lost up to 1.5 million man-hours a year. Last week, after a period of improvement over the last two years, the wildcatting started up again. Two thousand men at Dagenham, the biggest of Ford's eight British plants, threatened not to work any more overtime because Ford, while granting an extra day's annual vacation, wanted to switch their holidays from...