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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrialization called forth new skills, the French workingman's average pay jumped 60% (to $80 monthly) in a decade; Danes and Norwegians average 84? an hour, v. 42? ten years ago, while Swedes get a minimum $1.16 an hour, v. 50? an hour in 1948. The British secretary who once considered herself lucky to draw $1,100 annually can command better than $2,800 in 1959. The sums may not be princely by U.S. standards, but they are enough to open up a new way of life...
Transmission) signed up on a similar profit-sharing basis for a minimum investment of $126 million...
...students, whose total costs per year are now a hefty $2,500. Last week Bard's onetime parent, Columbia, calmly turned the trick by boosting college tuition 21% to $1,450. Reason: "the imperative need" for increasing faculty salaries. A Columbia full professor's minimum pay will now climb...
TYPEWRITER IMPORT BAN is sought by U.S. typewriter manufacturers. The Tariff Commission will investigate a petition from Smith-Corona Marchant and Royal McBee asking for a duty of 30% ad valorem per foreign machine, with a minimum fee of $10. Main reason: imports account for a disproportionate 30% of the U.S. market...
...sheep industry in the U.S. With rising land values and labor costs, it is pretty tough for a rancher to raise a sheep and make much over $1.50 on it." Delfino, on the other hand, can buy Australian sheep for $5.50 or less each, net $3 per head minimum when he sells them...