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...outgo estimate mushroomed to $6 billion-more than twice the combined outlays of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor departments. In a rational world, good crop weather ought to count as a national blessing, but under the archaic, surplus-spawning price-support laws, it only serves to boost the already scandalous cost of subsidized farming by another billion dollars...
...wealth supplied by Mullers X rays gave genetics a big boost, and Beadle felt the benefit along with his colleagues. After getting his doctorate (in genetics) at Cornell in 1931, he went to the California Institute of Technology on a National Research Council fellowship. Dr. Morgan, grand maestro of the fruit flies, had moved there in 1928 to head the biology section, and several of his keenest disciples had come with him. Young Dr. Beadle found himself in the best genetic society...
TROUBLED RAILROADS in East will get $60 million windfall in back mail pay, plus $32 million per year hike in rates. ICC approved 30% boost retroactive to last November, other increases retroactive...
STRONG INVESTOR DEMAND caused Wall Street's Lazard Freres to boost initial offering for its new mutual fund from 2,500,000 shares to 8,500,000. Fund will invest about $117 million...
...general fall-off in orders as companies finished the buying spurt they put on in anticipation of a price rise this month. One small specialty producer, Pennsylvania's Alan Wood Steel Co., whose 800,000-ton annual production ranks it 23rd in the U.S., said it would boost prices an average $6 a ton, arguing that it could not absorb increased wage costs of 20? per hour on July...