Word: third
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest producer, followed an expensive settlement of a 128-day strike at its Ontario mines by announcing a 24% price increase. The move is bound to have major effects in the U.S. Stainless-steel producers, who use 37% of all nickel, are expected to increase prices shortly, for the third time since January. From nickel-plated auto bumpers to jet engines, many products are sure to cost more...
...face of such widespread price increases, businessmen are continuing to boost their capital spending budgets, figuring that they had better invest before prices go up still more. During this year's third quarter, according to the National Industrial Conference Board, capital budgets of the nation's 1,000 largest manufacturers went up at an annual rate of 3.7%. That was not as big a rise as the 13% increase in the second quarter, but a rise nonetheless. Before businessmen bet less, the Administration will have to show them more convincing evidence that they are going to lose...
...Union Confederation, or Lands-organisation, is "to give due consideration to the effect of wage developments on the national economy." Sweden's powerful LO represents one worker in every two, and Denmark's LO also has every second worker as a member; Norway's encompasses a third of all breadwinners. Management groups are equally strong, well-organized-and enlightened. Corporations provide quite a few fringe benefits. Oslo's Tandbergs Radiofabrikk, for instance, supplies a gym for its employees and holds parties for them, including one near Christmas for their children...
Next week's "peace fast" is the focus of December Moratorium activities, the third in a series of what HMC calls monthly "escalating protests" against...
Through the third period the play was evenly matched with neither team able to gain a clear advantage. But the signs of a St. Louis victory slowly appeared. Harvard played the entire game with only 12 players, and as the game progressed, the Crimson showed signs of fatigue...