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...Detroit Builder George Miller knows why houses aren't selling: a house he could build in 1940 for $5,090 costs $9,990 today. The NHA index of building costs for a standard house stood at 137.4 (1935-39 average = 100) on V-J day (see chart). In the next 18 months it jumped as much as it had in the previous six years. But the real shocker was the way costs had skyrocketed in the last six months...
...passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
...other salts are. Instead of having a metal (e.g., sodium or iron) as the basic part of its molecule, it has an ammonium "radical" (one nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms) masquerading as a metal. Its acid part is also a radical: one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms (see chart...
...Labor argued that since May 1945 price rises had exceeded wage gains (see chart, col. 3). Food prices, which make up 43% of the average budget, had zoomed past all wage increases. Labor had won a higher living standard during the war and seemed determined to keep...
Canada's fever chart will show more ups before it shows many downs...