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Livestock feeders had been worried over the end of ceilings, and even more because many grain growers refused to sell before prices went up. By week's end, feeders felt better; stored grain was coming into the market, and prices for beef cattle were rising enough to absorb higher feed costs. The prairies stirred under the dangerous tonic of rising prices...
...Taft-Hartley law superseded all previous NLRB decisions on foremen; no employer was now required to bargain with them. Bolstering this was a dockside opinion from Harry Lundeberg, boss of the A.F.L. sailors' union on the Pacific, and an enemy of Bridges. Said Lundeberg: "This is a phony beef...
...told his men to ignore the C.I.O. pickets, and promised to supply crews to four struck Luckenbach ships. Some C.I.O. unionists apparently thought it was a phony beef also. When the Matson Navigation Co. rerouted its Matsonia from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Bridges tried to stop her from sailing to Honolulu. But members of the C.I.O. stewards' union loaded the passengers' baggage and the Matsonia, manned by Lundeberg's unionists...
...didn't find roast beef on your tray yesterday, don't talk about high prices, don't mumble about the lack of meat, but take your troubles to a subterranean chamber under Eliot House where Miss Frances Hinckley, beside two huge ovens, plots College menus three weeks in advance...
...that, contrary to popular opinion, the third-string quarterback does not make more than a full professor. No coach's salary, in fact, exceeds that of a professor. Laundry bills run high, especially for towels, the players always want more to eat, calling for steak when they get roast beef, and incidentals cost tremendously. Services and wages before the war totalled $80,000. Now they have nearly doubled. All in all, the H.A.A. suffered a deficit last year of $90,000, of which the University absorbed $50,000. The rest was carried over into...