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...theater were singing the blues about life on the road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
...WAGE BOOST will go to some 500,000 of oil industry's workers and salaried employees. Hike lifts average hourly pay of refinery workers from...
Monro cited "inflation" as the cause of the boost. Additional costs of services and materials, plus the deconversion of some rooms into offices for non-resident tutors, made the increase necessary...
...FARE BOOST is approved by CAB. On flights due to start next week between New York and Los Angeles, American Airlines will charge $194 (counting tax) first class, v. $183 on piston planes. CAB is studying increases on tourist fares...
...read, two Democrats occupying key positions in the Senate and House housing subcommittees, Senator John Sparkman and Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama, last week introduced housing bills that would go further than the Administration wants toward stepping up federal aid. The Rains bill, for example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down-payment requirements while stretching out mortgage repayments...